How popular is the baby name Day in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Day.

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Popularity of the baby name Day


Posts that mention the name Day

Baby names with DAY: Dayle, Oladayo, Hriday

daytime

If you’re looking for a baby name that will make your day — that is to say, a name that contains the word DAY — you’re in luck!

Here’s a long list of names that contain the letter sequence “d-a-y.” Most of these names come directly from the U.S. SSA’s baby name data.

  • Abhyuday
  • Adaya, Adayah
  • Adayla
  • Adaysha
  • Adayshia
  • Adedayo
  • Aiday
  • Aldayr
  • Amisaday
  • Ariday
  • Cassiday
  • Corday
  • Day, Daye
  • Daya
  • Dayali
  • Dayami, Dayamy
  • Dayamin
  • Dayamir
  • Dayamit
  • Dayan, Dayaan, Dayyan
  • Dayana, Dayanah, Dayanna, Dayahna, Dayiana
  • Dayanaira
  • Dayanara, Dayannara
  • Dayanari
  • Dayane, Dayanne
  • Dayani, Dayanie, Dayany, Dayanni
  • Dayanira
  • Dayanis
  • Dayari
  • Dayatra
  • Dayce
  • Daycee
  • Daycen
  • Dayceon
  • Daycia
  • Dayde
  • Dayden
  • Daydra
  • Daydrian
  • Dayeli
  • Dayelin
  • Daygan
  • Daygoro
  • Dayin
  • Dayion
  • Dayja, Dayjah
  • Dayjon
  • Daykota
  • Dayla, Daylah
  • Daylan
  • Dayland
  • Daylani, Daylanie Daylany
  • Dayle, Dayl
  • Daylee, Dayleigh, Daylie, Dayli
  • Daylen
  • Daylene, Dayleen
  • Dayleni
  • Dayleon
  • Daylia
  • Dayliani
  • Dayline
  • Dayln
  • Daylon
  • Daylyn, Daylynn, Daylinn, Daylin
  • Dayman
  • Daymar
  • Daymen
  • Daymeon, Daymion
  • Daymi
  • Daymian, Daymien
  • Daymin
  • Daymir
  • Daymon
  • Daymond
  • Dayna, Daynah, Daynna
  • Dayne, Dayn
  • Dayner
  • Daynisha
  • Dayo
  • Dayon
  • Dayona, Dayonna
  • Dayonte
  • Dayquan, Dayquon, Dayqwan
  • Dayra
  • Dayren
  • Dayri
  • Dayrin
  • Dayris
  • Dayro
  • Dayron
  • Dayse
  • Daysen
  • Daysha
  • Dayshana
  • Dayshanay
  • Dayshawn, Dayshaun, Daysean, Dayshon, Dayshun
  • Dayshawna
  • Dayshia
  • Daysi, Daysy, Daysie
  • Daysia
  • Dayson
  • Daysun
  • Dayten
  • Daythan
  • Daytin
  • Dayton
  • Daytona
  • Daytron
  • Daytwon, Daytwan
  • Dayva
  • Dayvanee
  • Dayven
  • Dayveon, Dayvion, Dayveion
  • Dayvian
  • Dayvid
  • Dayvin
  • Dayvon
  • Dayvonna
  • Dayvonne
  • Dayza, Dayzah
  • Dayzha
  • Dayzhane
  • Dayzi, Dayzee
  • Dayzia
  • Faraday
  • Foday
  • Friday
  • Hedaya
  • Hidaya
  • Hidayat
  • Hodaya
  • Holiday, Holliday
  • Hriday
  • Hridaya
  • Hudayfa
  • Idaya
  • Ifedayo
  • Jadaya, Jadayah
  • Jendaya
  • Jendayi
  • Jordayn
  • Judayah
  • Kadaysha
  • Kadaysia
  • Korday
  • Kriday
  • Ladaya
  • Ladayja
  • Ladaynian
  • Ladaysha
  • Ladaysia
  • Linday
  • Loveday
  • Maday
  • Madaya
  • Minday
  • Monday
  • Nadaya
  • Oday
  • Oladayo
  • Sadaya
  • Shaday
  • Shadaya, Shadayah
  • Sharday, Shardaye, Charday
  • Shawday
  • Sudays
  • Sunday
  • Tadayoshi
  • Temidayo
  • Tuesday
  • Uday
  • Udayveer
  • Zadaya
  • Zandaya
  • Zendaya, Zendayah, Xendaya
  • Zurisaday
  • Zyndaya

Some of the above are non-traditional spellings of more common names such as David, Damian, and Diana.

Which DAY name do you like most? Let me know in the comments!

P.S. Three more names featuring the letter sequence “d-a-y” — Deeday, Dee Day, and D-Day — were given to three baby boys born on June 6, 1944.

Source: SSA

Image: Adapted from Spring! (8684685457) by Johan Neven under CC BY 2.0.

Baby born on D-Day, named Deeday

D-Day

A baby boy born in England on June 6, 1944, was named Deeday Rodney White — primarily because his father, Bert, kept hearing the term “D-Day” on the radio:

All his father reported hearing on the wireless the morning he was born was about the D-Day landings.

“He said to me all he could hear was ‘D-Day, D-Day, D-Day being drummed into my head’.”

Mr. White said initially the registrar refused to accept the name, saying the operation was top secret.

His father returned the next day with a copy of the Daily Mirror reporting the news of the D-Day landings on the French coast.

The name doesn’t have a hyphen on his birth certificate, but Mr. White prefers to write it “Dee-Day.”

And, even though he “hated” the name as a child, he became proud of it as an adult — so much so that he passed it down to his own son.

(Other D-Day babies include Dee Day, Invasia, and D-Day.)

Source: “D-Day: The baby named after the Normandy landings.” BBC News 5 Jun. 2019.

Where did the baby name Armistice come from in 1918?

Headline "Armistice Is Signed" on the front page of the Carson City Daily Appeal (Nov. 11, 1918)

The word Armistice, which refers to cessation of combat, popped up in the U.S. baby name data in 1918:

  • 1920: unlisted
  • 1919: 5 baby boys named Armistice
  • 1918: 5 baby girls named Armistice [debut]
  • 1917: unlisted
  • 1916: unlisted

The influence, of course, was the Armistice declared on November 11, 1918, that signaled the end of World War I. From that point forward, November 11 became known as Armistice Day.*

Newspaper headlines across the nation highlighted the word. Here’s another example:

Headline "Armistice Is Signed" on the front page of the Evening Missourian (Nov. 11, 1918)

And another:

Headline "Armistice Signed - War Over" on the front page of the Brattleboro Daily Reformer (Nov. 11, 1918)

A few of the babies named Armistice even got “Day” as a middle name. And at least one of these “Armistice Day” babies, born in Connecticut in 1927, managed to make it into the papers:

Bridgeport, it has developed, is to have an Armistice Day the year round. Born on Nov. 11 last, the infant daughter of a local family is believed to be the first child in the country named in honor of the world holiday. Her official name is “Armistice Day Guiseppina [sic] Olympia Bredice.” Her father is an employee of a local sewing machine factory.

What do you think of Armistice as a first name?

*It was renamed Veterans Day in 1954.

Source: “Baby named “Armistice Day”.” Reading Eagle 23 Nov. 1927: 4.
Images: LOC

P.S. More WWI baby names: Foch, Marne, Allenby, Joffre, Pershing, Tasker, and Liberty.

Babies named Thanksgiving

wild turkey

We’ve talked about people named Easter, Fourth (of July), Halloween, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year…what about Thanksgiving?

I mean, we’ve already met Dr. Happy Thanksgiving, but are there more?

Yes, at least a few dozen more. As you’d expect, nearly all were born in late November. Here are three examples:

The two most recent Thanksgivings I found were both born in the 1990s.

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