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Popularity of the baby name Day


Posts that mention the name Day

It’s Christmas, so…Happy Thanksgiving!

wild turkey

I didn’t see this in time to post it on Thanksgiving, so I’ll post it on Christmas instead.

A month ago, Richard Chin of the Pioneer Press interviewed Minnesotans with holiday-inspired names. Most of the names were Christmas-related (Christmas Eve, Mary Christmas, Merry Eve) but the one that caught my eye was Happy Thanksgiving.

How did Dr. Happy Thanksgiving Reynolds, a Minneapolis woman born in 1970, come by her unusual name?

“I was the child of hippies,” Reynolds said. And not just the occasional bell-bottom, bead-wearing hippies, according to Reynolds. They were a hard-core, tofu-making, co-op founding couple who didn’t have a name picked out for their new baby because they believed in letting the universe help choose the name on the day of her birth.

“It was total universe magic time for them,” Reynolds said.

So when the day happened to be Thanksgiving, the universe seemed to be deciding that Reynolds’ first and middle names should be Happy Thanksgiving. The first snowfall of the season also occurred that day, Reynolds said.

“I narrowly missed the name Snow,” she said.

How does Happy Thanksgiving like her name?

Reynolds said her name has been an “unintentional gift.”

She isn’t shy about using her full name in her professional life. After medical school, “I said, ‘You know what, I’m Dr. Happy Thanksgiving Reynolds.’ That’s just who I am.”

She’s gotten job interviews because people want to meet someone named Happy Thanksgiving. “I’m someone you’re not going to forget based on the name,” she said.

I’ve found other people named Thanksgiving — one went by the cute nickname Givie — but Reynolds is the only Happy Thanksgiving I know of.

If you want some holiday-themed names more appropriate for this time of year, check out these posts from last year: Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Merry Christmas, Christmas Carol, Christmas Tree, Happy New Year.

Source: Her name is Happy Thanksgiving, and she’s not the only one with a holiday handle (via Neatorama)

Image: Adapted from Male wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) strutting by Frank Schulenburg under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Baby born on D-Day, named D-Day

D-Day

I couple of years ago I posted about a baby who was born on D-Day — the day, during WWII, that Allied forces invaded northern France via the beaches of Normandy. She was named Dee Day.

Today marks the 69th anniversary of D-Day, so let’s check out another D-Day baby: Earl D-Day Samuel Campbell, who was born in Gallatin, Montana, on June 6, 1944.

Not only that, but he got married on the same date exactly 20 years later — June 6, 1964. (His wife’s name was Cheryl.)

Interesting fact: The “D” in D-Day may simply (and redundantly!) stand for “day,” according to PBS:

The Army began using the codes “H-hour” and “D-day” during World War I to indicate the time or date of an operation’s start. Military planners would write of events planned to occur on “H-hour” or “D-day” — long before the actual dates and times of the operations would be known, or in order to keep plans secret. And so the “D” may simply refer to the “day” of invasion.

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Image: Normandy Invasion (public domain)

Babies born on Easter, named Easter

Easter eggs

Here’s a short list of babies named for the fact that they were born on (or near) the holiday of Easter:

  • Easter Eve, female, born on April 14, 1661, in England.
  • Easter Sunday Renick, female, born on April 8, 1860, in West Virginia.
  • Easter Lily Gates, female, born on April 21, 1889, in Iowa.
    • She was the Supervisor of Elections in Broward County, Florida, from 1929 to 1969. “Hats were her trademark.”
  • Easter Daybreak Mullarkey, female, born on March 29, 1891, in Scotland.
  • Easter Eve Tyrell, female, born April 16, 1892, in Maine.
  • Easter Sunday Mckinnon, female, born on April 18, 1906, in North Carolina.
  • Easter Day Hagans, female, born on April 23, 1916, in Florida.
  • Easter Day, female, born on April 20, 1930, in Kentucky.
    • “Day” was her married name, ironically.
  • Easter Sunday Cook, female, born on April 9, 1939, in North Carolina.
  • Bunny Easter Parris, born in 1947 in North Carolina.
  • Mirabella Bunny Adams, born in 2011 to musician Bryan Adams.

Know of any others?

Image: Adapted from Easter-eggs-1 under CC0 1.0.

Holiday baby name: Christmas Tree

Christmas tree decorations

I’ve found multiple people named Christmas Eve, Merry Christmas, Christmas Day and Christmas Carol…but only one lonely soul whose name references a Christmas tree.

George and Ruth Tree of Kent, England, christened their baby girl, Lilian Ruth Christmas Tree, on January 18, 1903.

Image: Adapted from Bellagio Christmas tree by Bert Kaufmann under CC BY-SA 2.0.