# Were Tuesday and Wednesday Common (Girls') Names? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 24, 2022, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-tuesday-and-wednesday-common-girls-names/970227 "2022-08-24T13:08:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-tuesday-and-wednesday-common-girls-names/970227/1 "2022-08-24T13:08:16Z")
I’ve heard of Wednesday Addams (not real) and Tuesday Weld (real but it was a nickname she adopted). I’ve never heard of real or fictional Mondays or Thursdays or whatever. Were these (or any other days) ever common names for girls? Also, I’ve heard of January Jones, and I went to school with a dozen or so Aprils. May and June aren’t really common for girls/younger women these days, though a few generations ago things were different. Have other months been common sources of names (boys OR girls)? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-tuesday-and-wednesday-common-girls-names/970227/2 "2022-08-24T13:11:54Z")
Jasper Fford has written a series of comic alt-fantasy novels whose main character is Thursday Next. Robert Heinlein wrote a novel about an artificial human named Friday. I don’t think day/month names have ever been _common_, but they certainly haven’t been _rare_. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-tuesday-and-wednesday-common-girls-names/970227/3 "2022-08-24T13:24:54Z")
I always assumed the main character in _Fahrenheit 451_, Montag was named after the day of the week (in German) but apparently it’s just a variation of Montague or Montgomery. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-tuesday-and-wednesday-common-girls-names/970227/4 "2022-08-24T13:36:41Z")
My cousin’s daughter named her daughter Gidget Thursday. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-tuesday-and-wednesday-common-girls-names/970227/5 "2022-08-24T13:37:30Z")
August certainly gets used. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-tuesday-and-wednesday-common-girls-names/970227/6 "2022-08-24T13:40:12Z")
But that was a personal name before it was a month. I wonder if a larger percentage of boys named August were actually born in that month. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-tuesday-and-wednesday-common-girls-names/970227/7 "2022-08-24T13:43:53Z")
We can easily go a way towards answering this question: I downloaded a few lists of popular U.S. names from [here](https://www.galbithink.org/names/us200.htm). I did not see any Tuesday, Wednesday, Tiw, Tyr, Odin, Woden, etc but I did not comprehensively check them all. Doesn’t seem really popular. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-tuesday-and-wednesday-common-girls-names/970227/8 "2022-08-24T13:43:55Z")
I was born in August. I’m Aaron, pleased to meet you. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-tuesday-and-wednesday-common-girls-names/970227/9 "2022-08-24T14:15:52Z")
Searched both for various ranges on the SSA [popular names](https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/) list and neither came up in the top 1000 in any of them. If it’s not in the top 1000 there, it’s not common (in the USofA). ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-tuesday-and-wednesday-common-girls-names/970227/10 "2022-08-24T16:34:10Z")
I went to college with a _very_ cute girl whose name was September. Yes, she was born September 1st. And yes, she was very tired of being called Miss September. I had an aunt named June, also born on the first day of the month. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-tuesday-and-wednesday-common-girls-names/970227/11 "2022-08-24T16:37:14Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > I went to college with a _very_ cute girl whose name was September. Yes, she was born September 1st. And yes, she was very tired of being called Miss September. I went to college with a woman named Alison, whose hippy parents gave her the middle name “Wonderland.” Her name was Alison Wonderland Jones (or whatever). ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-tuesday-and-wednesday-common-girls-names/970227/12 "2022-08-24T16:56:33Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > Yes, she was born September 1st. She complained about that name, but stopped when her parents told her they’d planned to name her August, since her due date was August 25th. But she was a week late, and her mother went into labor after dinner. As she was delivered, the father said “Look, it’s a healthy baby August!” The midwife looked up at the clock and said "Well, since it’s 12:01, she’s the hospital’s first September baby. The mother smiled at the father, “Like you said, it’s a healthy baby September!” And now you know… the rest of the story. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-tuesday-and-wednesday-common-girls-names/970227/13 "2022-08-24T17:20:56Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Jasper Fford has written a series of comic alt-fantasy novels whose main character is Thursday Next. Robert Heinlein wrote a novel about an artificial human named Friday. Seanan McGuire has a protagonist called October Daye. She has sister/aunt name August and September. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-tuesday-and-wednesday-common-girls-names/970227/14 "2022-08-24T19:31:04Z")
In the southern US there’s a practice for children to call adult females “Miss ”. So “Miss June”, “Miss September”, etc. would just be an ordinary form of address. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-tuesday-and-wednesday-common-girls-names/970227/15 "2022-08-24T19:41:44Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > But that was a personal name before it was a month. Same for July, of course. While most people seem to go with the standard human-nomenclature variants like Julius, Julian, Julia, Julie, etc., there are some people with the given name July. As for weekday personal names, that is apparently [more of an actual thing for babies born on Sunday.](https://www.romper.com/p/16-baby-names-for-sunday-babies-that-are-simply-sensational-13603855) There are a number of Romance-language names for Sunday that are similar/equivalent to common personal names, because of the whole “Lord’s Day = dies domini” thing. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-tuesday-and-wednesday-common-girls-names/970227/16 "2022-08-24T19:53:13Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > I went to college with a _very_ cute girl whose name was September. I was going to say that I knew a guy in college whose girlfriend was named September. Probably not the same girl, although I suppose it’s possible. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-tuesday-and-wednesday-common-girls-names/970227/17 "2022-08-24T20:06:13Z")
My guess is that they were used as stage names and in fiction precisely because they were so uncommon in real life. ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-tuesday-and-wednesday-common-girls-names/970227/18 "2022-08-24T22:11:56Z")
There’s a band around here called April Mae and the June Bugs. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-tuesday-and-wednesday-common-girls-names/970227/19 "2022-08-24T22:48:09Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/7sHsMctH1Nw/hqdefault.jpg "Fozzie Bear - Tuesday March 2 Joke") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sHsMctH1Nw) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-tuesday-and-wednesday-common-girls-names/970227/20 "2022-08-24T23:09:37Z")
“Autumn” and “Summer” are also used as girls’ names, as is “Dawn”. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-tuesday-and-wednesday-common-girls-names/970227.md?page=2)