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Working Title: Mister Day of the Week: From YKTTW
SKJAM: Personal anecdote...I worked with a young woman named Tuesday at one job. Everyone called her "Wednesday", though, because she always came in late.
== July and August ==
I removed the claim about September being the ninth month because of these - they were not new months, merely new names for the months previously called Quintilis and Sextilis (ie., Fifth and Sixth). The numerical discrepancy derives from the early Roman practice of beginning the year with March.
"Dollhouse has an Active named November." While it is a month-name, the *reason* is that November stands for "N" in the military alphabet. For example, if there was a female Active named Charlie, it wouldn't be an example of a
Tomboyish Name, either.
Vampire Buddha: Removed some examples which aren't days.
Months and such
- Kisaragi Haruna of Corrector Yui; her last name is an old word for February, and her first name has "spring" in it.
- The main characters in Sol Bianca are named April, Feb, Janny, June, and May.
- Satsuki and Mei from My Neighbor Totoro are named after the Japanese and English (respectively) names for the month of May.
- The Twelve Sisters of Coyote Ragtime Show are named for the twelve months of the year.
- A variation on this trope: When Spider-Girl starts working for a villain, he puts her on a team with his two flunkies, April and June, hinting that he knows her real name, May.
- And now there's May's clone April Parker.
- Disney comics feature April, May and June, Distaff Counterparts of Huey, Dewey and Louie.
- A named-after-month example is in The Avengers (as in Steed and Peel) movie. The mother's name was April, with kids May, June, July and August.
- Named-after-month example: The character July, in the young adult novel The Snowbird. He strikes a bargain with the teenaged narrator Willanna: "You don't call me Julie and I won't call you Willie."
- Named after month: The title character of Nadine Gordimer's novel July's People, a black South African.
- Named-after-month variety Mentioned in Nick's notes of Gatsby's parties (along with a lot of Fail O Suckynames):
I have forgotten their names — Jacqueline, I think, or else Consuela or Gloria or Judy or June, and their last names were either the melodious names of flowers and months or the sterner ones of the great American capitalists whose cousins, if pressed, they would confess themselves to be.
- Charis in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride names her daughter August for the month she was born and the soft, summery images it evokes. Charis is crushed when August goes away to university and changes her name to Augusta, which her mother thinks sounds hard and martial.
- Dollhouse has an Active named November.
- Technically not an example. The Actives are named using a version of military phonetics.
- Neds Declassified School Survival Guide had a Girl Posse named May, June, and Julie.
- In an episode of Married With Children, Bud gets a valentine from a girl named "April May June". He's convinced it's a prank and ignores it.
- The Dolls, M.Bison/Vega's hitsquad in Street Fighter, are named for the months of the year in their native languages. Juni and Juli, the only playable Dolls, take their names from the German words for June and July.
