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* The main antagonists in ''KeysToTheKingdom'' are all named after the days of the week.

* In ''SolBianca'', the all-woman crew of the starship Sol Bianca bear the English names of months, or simple variations thereon: Janny, Feb, April, May, and June.
* The Hinata family in ''SgtFrog'' has a seasonal convention (Fuyuki =Winter Tree, Natsumi=Summer Beauty, Aki=Autumn).
* In the anime and manga series ''FruitsBasket'' all the members of the Juunishi except Yuki are named after archaic names for months. For example, Isuzu 'Rin' Sohma is named from 'Isuzukure tsuki' (meaning 'June') and Hatsuharu 'Haru' Sohma is named directly from 'Hatsuharu', which means 'January'. This was revealed by the author Natsuki Takaya in Volume 14 of the manga.
* Film example: the sisters in ''MyNeighborTotoro'' are named "Satsuki" and "Mei"; the word "satsuki" is the old Japanese name for the month of May. Their sharing a month is apparently a reference to the two of them being a single character in early drafts of the script.

* In ''UruseiYatsura'', the school that the characters attend is named Tomobiki, and there are occasional mentions of another school named Butsumetsu. These names are from the ''rokuyō'', a cycle of six days (similar to the seven-day week) in the Japanese lunisolar calendar. Butsumetsu is considered the unluckiest day of the ''rokuyō'' (it symbolizes the day Buddha died), so most of the students from that school are {{delinquents}}.
* The teachers in ''HappyLesson'' are named after the medieval Japanese names of months.

* ''CoyoteRagtimeShow'' has 12 ElegantGothicLolita robot assassins each named after a month of the year.

* A more meta example, all of Hiro Mishima's manga series have a protagonist named after a season. ''RaveMaster'' stars ''Haru'' Glory, ''Manga/FairyTail'' has ''Natsu'' Dragonil, and the short-lived ''MonsterSoul'' had ''Aki''.

* {{xxxHolic}} - Watanuki, based on an alternate reading of April 1.

* The [=MI6=] agents in ''DarkerThanBlack'' all have {{code name}}s relating to months and days, such as April, July, February, November 11, and August 7.

* The Akan peoples of Ghana and the Ivory Coast have a tradition of "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akan_names#Day_names Day Names]]", given on the basis of the day of the week on which the child was born; this custom has spread to other West African peoples under the influence of the Akan. The most famous day names worldwide are Kwame ("born on Saturday"), from the Ghanaian president and pan-African activist Kwame Nkrumah, and Kofi ("born on Friday"), from the Secretary General of the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations Kofi Annan.

* On ''{{Fringe}}'', [[MysteriousWatcher the Observers]] use months as names.

* ''TowerOfGod'': 25th Baam, whose name means 25th Night, was named after his birthday. The 13 Month Series is a group of special weapons named after the 13 Months of the TUS universe.

* {{Loveless}} - Ritsuka and Seimei are named after seasons.

* April May from ''AceAttorney''.

* All the main characters of G. K. Chesterton's ''TheManWhoWasThursday'' are secret agents who take the names of days of the week, including the protagonist, Thursday.

* The [[KatanasOfTheRisingSun Imperial Japanese Navy]] had a class of twelve destroyers (the Mutsuki class), named for the twelve months of the Japanese lunar calendar. None of them survived the war.

* ''{{Minami-ke}}'' doubles up on this: the Minami sisters have ''Haru''ka (spring), ''Ka''na (summer), and Chi''aki'' (autumn), while the other Minami family has ''Natsu''ki (summer), ''Aki''ra (autumn), ''Tou''ma (winter)... and the oldest brother, ''Haru''o (spring).

* May "Mayday" Parker and her clone sister April in ''{{Spider-Girl}}''. The previously unnamed April thinks that she is the original, so she names herself for an earlier month as a jab at May.

* The Akan peoples of Ghana and the Ivory Coast have a tradition of "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akan_names#Day_names Day Names]]", given on the basis of the day of the week on which the child was born; this custom has spread to other West African peoples under the influence of the Akan. The most famous day names worldwide are Kwame ("born on Saturday"), from the Ghanaian president and pan-African activist Kwame Nkrumah, and Kofi ("born on Friday"), from the Secretary General of the UnitedNations Kofi Annan.

* JohnVarley's ''{{Titan}}'' novels include two clone-sisters, April and August Polo, each named for the month in which she was "born." They have three other clone-sibs named in the same style: May, June, and July. April and August's captain, Cirocco Jones, thinks that the names alone prove that scientists should not be allowed to fool around with experiments that sleep and breathe and cry.

* JohnVarley's ''{{Titan}}'' novels include two clone-sisters, April and August Polo, each named for the months in which she was "born." They have three other clone-sibs named in the same style: May, June, and July. April and August's captain, Cirocco Jones, thinks that the names alone prove that scientists should not be allowed to fool around with experiments that sleep and breathe and cry.

* May "Mayday" Parker and her clone sister April in ''{{Spider-Girl}}''.

* In ''TheSecretLifeOfBees'', the sisters that take Lily in are all named after months: August, June, May, and May's deceased twin April. At one point, Lily muses that as a member of their sisterhood, she wouldn't mind being October.

* In the dinosaur-themed ''[[SuperSentai Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger]]'', the three core rangers' surnames are Hakua, Sanjou and Itsuki, which are puns on the Japanese words for the Cretaceous, Jurassic and Triassic epochs (which was when the dinosaurs lived).
** This was [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] during the cross over TokusouSentaiDekaranger VS Abaranger, when the Dekarangers find recite the names of Ryouga, Ranru and Yukito... on their ''business cards.''

* ''KamenRider'' gained one thanks to ''[[KamenRiderDecade Decade]]'' and the OneSteveLimit. ''Decade'''s female lead is named Natsumi (Summer), but so is a character from ''KamenRiderBlade''. When the latter appears in ''Decade'', she is presented as an AlternateUniverse version named Haruka (Spring). ''KamenRiderDouble'' follows the trend with female lead Akiko (Fall[=/=]Autumn) and one-shot character Fuyumi (Winter).

* The StarWarsExpandedUniverse has Leia's WhiteHairedPrettyGirl childhood friend Winter.

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* April, May and June are all fairly common names. At least one person around is named April May...[[StealthPun born in June]].
* SummerGlau.
* There's also January Jones, of ''MadMen'' fame.
* Aztecs were named after the day of their birth, consisting of a day sign [[YouAreNumberSix plus a number]].
* The [[KatanasOfTheRisingSun Imperial Japanese Navy]] had a class of twelve destroyers (the Mutsuki class), named for the twelve months of the Japanese lunar calendar. None of them survived the war.
* The Akan peoples of Ghana and the Ivory Coast have a tradition of "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akan_names#Day_names Day Names]]", given on the basis of the day of the week on which the child was born; this custom has spread to other West African peoples under the influence of the Akan. The most famous day names worldwide are Kwame ("born on Saturday"), from the Ghanaian president and pan-African activist Kwame Nkrumah, and Kofi ("born on Friday"), from the Secretary General of the UnitedNations Kofi Annan.
* It is was also relatively common in some countries to name a child after the Patron Saint of the day it was born. For example, someone born on the 30th of June would've been called Marcial.

* In ''TheSecretLifeofBees'', the sisters that take Lily in are all named after months: August, June, May, and May's deceased twin April. At one point, Lily muses that as a member of their sisterhood, she wouldn't mind being October.