Why is Sunday used more for daughters over sons?

That is the question... 🤔 The seventh day of the week 📅Sunday as a first 📛name should be considered more a 💙boy's name solely because of the 'Sun' at the start of the name (as being considered a play on 'son') — but it's instead surprisingly seen as a 💗girl's name first. 

Behind The Name sees 📛Sunday as both masculine and feminine: "from the name of the day of the week, which ultimately derives from Old English sunnandæg, which was composed of the elements sunne  "sun" and dæg "day."" 

📛Nameberry🍒 describes Sunday as a girl's name (but also recognizes it as a boy's name, which peaked at #3472 in 1916) meaning, "'day of the sun.' The name itself derives from Hellenistic astrology, in which each day of the week was attributed the name of what were then known as the seven planets - Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon. In modern English, only 2 days retain their "planet" name besides Sunday, Monday (Moon day) and Saturday (Saturn Day)." 

📛NB🍒 believes: "Sunday is among the most usable of the day names with its sunny first syllable, its sweet sound, and its potential to be both a sassy or a spiritual choice. The name initially made headlines in 2008 when Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban chose it for their daughter, Sunday Rose. A subtly spiritual name, Sunday is the day of rest and worship in Christianity, placing the name alongside other modern Christian choices, like Shepherd, Cruz, and Dove, that aren't directly Biblical, but more quietly give a nod to faith. Sunday could make a meaningful and happy feeling choice. In the popular "Mondays Child" rhyme, Sunday's child is said to be "bonny and blithe and good and gay", while Sunday is also associated with a day off work (for some), Sunday Roasts, Period dramas and older-skewing TV shows, Easter, larger newspapers, baseball, and the sweet dessert Sundae." 

Sunny Sunday (#1072 in US Top 1000) is unusually ahead of  gloomy Wednesday (#2425 in US Top 1000) in popularity.

Sunday is most common in 📍Nigeria and other parts of Africa, Behind The Name reports. 

In The United States 📍Texas and 📍Hawaii are where the most Sundays reside. 

I really like the name 📛Sunday as a first name but mainly when it's used as a 💙son's name (I find it so cute🥰). 🤷🏾‍♀️ I do like 📛Sunday for a 💗daughter's name but only when it has another girly name after ✔ a la 📛Sunday Rose🌹 — then it becomes a very pretty, feminine name. But 📛Sunday alone? I see it best as a masculine, boy's name for a 💙son. 👌🏾 

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛SUNDAYS:

📛Kez Sunday Udoka (💙son of 🎥actress Nia Long and 🏀basketball coach Ime Udoka)

📛Baron Sunday  (character in tv show Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman)

📛Sunday 🎮 (character in video game Honkai: ⭐Star Rail)

📛Sunday 📘 (character in the book The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton)

📛Lelda Sunday Reed Baillieu  (art patron & collector)

📛Sunday Riley  (skincare founder of the Sunday Riley brand)

📛Sunday Molly Myers (💗daughter of 🎥actor Mike Myers)

📛Sunday Sky (💗daughter of 👠model Ferne McCann)

📛Sunday Juno Fox (💗daughter of 🎥actress Janet Montgomery & 🖊writer Joe Fox)

📛Sunday LaBrant (💗daughter of 📺influencer family the LaBrants)

📛Sunday Kalogeras 🤳🏻 (influencer)

📛Jin "Sunday" Bo-ra 🎤 (singer)

📛Sunday Settman 🎥 (character in the film What Happened to Monday)

📛Sunday 🧛‍♀️📺 (character in tv show Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Sunday: 

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/S/SU/SUNDAY/index.html

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Sunday: 👍 OR 💙💙💙💙💙💙💗/10 

NAME OF THE DAY: Atlas

Today's 📛Name Of The Day📅 is the name: 📛Atlas — only because it was mentioned in the ⬅previous post📄 on 📛🌊Nautas: "Nautus might combine the appeal of ancient sounding names — such as Augustus, Titus, and Maximus — with the contemporary love for sea-inspired choices — like Ocean, Cove, and Caspian — with the on-trend sounds of names like Knox, Silas, Nash, and Atlas mixed in too." And I've been waiting for the perfect time to cover this relatively ✨new name📛 to me 🙋🏾‍♀️ that I like 🥰 a lot. 

Atlas is a word name first meaning: a bound collection of maps or a bound volume of charts, plates, or tables illustrating any subject.

Atlas "possibly means 'enduring' from Greek τλάω (tlao) meaning 'to endure,'" Behind The Name says.

Atlas is known in Greek mythology as: "one of the most famous Titans, the son of Iapetus and the Oceanid Asia (or, possibly, Clymene). He was the leader of the Titan rebellion against Zeus, and he got a fitting punishment after the end of the Titanomachy: he was condemned to eternally hold up the sky. Only once, and for a very brief period, he was bereaved of this burden by Heracles. Perseus, probably using Medusa’s head, turned him into the stony Atlas Mountains."  

Meaning: bearer of the heavens: "Atlas is one of those names that was previously thought too powerful for a baby boy, who would have to be strong enough to carry the world on his shoulders. Now Atlas has joined the pantheon of Greek and Roman god and goddess names in the realm of possibility, along with Mars, Zeus and Apollo," 📛Nameberry🍒 believes.

📛NB🍒 calls Atlas an "audacious choice" for a first name and describes it as "one of the fast-rising names on the list in recent years in the USA, jumping from oblivion in 2012 into the Top 500 in 2015, and climbing several hundred places higher since then [it ranks #101📈 in the US Top 1000]. As well as the mythological connection, Atlas is a cool geographical word name – perfect for the child of parents who love traveling or who hail from different parts of the globe." 

Atlas is obviously a boy's name originally but can be used for a girl. 📛NB🍒 says, "📛Atlas is used for an increasingly significant number of baby girls in the US. And undeniably, it's a name that imparts strength to any child."

📍North Carolina is where the most Atlases reside.  

Obviously I love 😍 the name 📛Atlas. I first 👂🏾heard of it from the work of fiction in It Ends With Us (the 2024 🎥movie version however of the 📘book by ✍Colleen Hoover). I was caught off guard 🤯 by a word I hadn't heard since my 🏫school days learning social studies — being used as a first name. I think 📛Atlas is a really 😎cool name. I associate an 📛Atlas as a curious, laid back introverted type or a rambunctious, energetic explorer. I sort of like 📛Atlas for a 💗girl... 🤔 but only if a second feminine name is hyphenated (📛Atlas-Isla) along with it or the middle name (📛Atlas Aria) is really girly and used as one name. But I like it most used for a 💙boy's name. 📛Atlas certainly is not a first name I'd ever thought I'd 👀see become so popular. But it's happened and here's to that 📛Atlas continues to rise📈 — it's just a great name choice 👌🏾 full of character, 📖heroic and 💪strong. 

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⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛ATLASES:

📛AtlasHeche Tupper 💙 (son of late 🎥actress Anne Heche & 🎥actor James Tupper)

📛Atlas Norton 💙 (son of 🎥actor Edward Norton)

📛Atlas Hendrix Sanchez 💙 (son of 🎶musician Claudio Sanchez of band Coheed and Cambria)

📛Atlas Cade Williams 💙 (son of 📺YouTubers Cory & Kristen Williams)

📛Atlas Blu💙 Klamer (son of 🎤singer Jonny Blu💙)

📛Atlas Noa 💗(daughter of actress 🎥Shay Mitchell)

📛Atlas Corrigan 📘 (character from the book It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover)

📛Atlas Flynn 📘 (character in book Miss Gomez and the Brethren by William Trevor)

📛Atlas Fuller 📘 (character in book trilogy The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee)

📛Atlas 🎮 (video game character in BioShock)

📛Atlas 🧩 (puzzle game 🤖robot character in Portal 2) 

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📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Atlas:

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/A/AT/ATLAS/index.html

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Atlas: 👍 OR 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙/10 

CELEBRITY BABY NAME REVEAL: Nautas

Benji Madden of the 00s 🤘rock 🎶band Good Charlotte shared the birth of his third child, a son👶 with 🎥actress Cameron Diaz — in a 😎cool Instagram 📢announcement with his name as: 📛🌊Nautas! 💙

📛🌊Nautas is from the Latin root word Nauta and means: "sailor, navigator, voyager, one who embarks on a journey and fears not the unknown."

📛Nameberry🍒 further explains 🌊Nautas is a "nautical name that blends modern and ancient. Likely derived from the Latin nauta, Nautus may be interpreted as meaning "sailor, seafarer, mariner" — though Benji Madden offered the more figurative interpretation when announcing his son's birth. A one of a kind choice, Nautus might combine the appeal of ancient sounding names — such as Augustus, Titus, and Maximus — with the contemporary love for sea-inspired choices — like Ocean, Cove, and Caspian — with the on-trend sounds of names like Knox, Silas, Nash, and Atlas mixed in too. It may also bring to mind the Nautilus, marine cephalopods, known for their large, spiral shells — also used as the name for Captain Nemo's submarine in Jules Verne's classic novel, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."

 📛🌊Nautas is such a new name, 📛NB🍒 only just added the name onto their website seemingly. 🤯

Initially, I thought 📛🌊Nautas was a made up name when I first heard it and therefore didn't like it. 😖 But when I saw Madden's post on it my mind changed 🤔 reading the meaning. It's a pretty nice name after all 👌🏾 and I do love💙sea🌊 inspired names. My only gripes: I keep thinking it's spelled how it's pronounced: N-a-u-t-u-s 🤦🏾‍♀️ and I somehow see nautical + naughty =  📛🌊Nautas. 😅 

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Nautas: 👍 OR 💙💙💙💙💙💙/10

BOOK CHARACTER NAME OF INTEREST: Prairie

📛Prairie is the lush🌿 name of a character in the children's book📗 Ballad of Lucy Whipple by Karen Cushman — she is a younger sister 👧 of protagonist California Morning🌄 aka Lucy Whipple. 

Prairie as an English word means: "a tract of grassland; meadow. An extensive, level or slightly undulating, mostly treeless tract of land in the Mississippi valley, characterized by a highly fertile soil and originally covered with coarse grasses, and merging into drier plateaus in the west."

📛Nameberry🍒 explains further, Prairie is derived from the Old French word praierie, which ultimately came from the Latin pratum, meaning "meadow." 📛NB🍒 describes Prairie as an, "unspecific place name with a wonderfully wide-open, spacious, western feel." 

📍California and 📍South Dakota are the most Prairies (👶baby girls and women👩) are found.

I had never heard of 📛Prairie used as a first name 😮 until recently — it's so fresh and definitely different — of course I love it. 🥰 Plus it's a really pretty name — I like how it sounds used as a name. 📛Prairie is so rare, it arrived on name charts📊 in ⏪1977 and as of 2024 it is #4434 on the US Top 1000. This 🌎earthy, green name could have potential to rise 📈 in popularity... and I'm rooting for it to. 🤞🏾

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛PRAIRIE:

📛Prairie Dawn 💗📺 (muppet character on tv show Sesame Street)

📛Prairie Moon 🌙 💗 (daughter of 🎥 actress Teresa Palmer)

📛Prairie Flower 🌻🎥 (character in the film The Vanishing Tribe)

📛Prairie Johnson 📺 (character on the tv show The OA)

📛Prairie Wheeler 📗 (character in the book Vineland)

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Prairie:

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/P/PR/PRAIRIE/index.html

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Prairie: 👍 OR 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚/10 

NAME OF THE DAY: Golden

The 🏆winner of the 152nd Kentucky Derby was 📢announced as: 🐎Golden Tempo. The polished name grabbed my attention. 👀 But I quickly remembered that name is familiar because there is a well-known human named: Golden — Golden Brooks — the actress known for her feisty role as Maya Wilkes on the ⏪00s 📺tv show Girlfriends 👩🏽👩🏽👩🏾👩🏿. So today I will talking about the brazen color name: 📛Golden. 

Golden the word is of English origin meaning: "bright, metallic or lustrous like gold; of the color of gold; yellow." Behind The Name believes it is from Old English gyldan "made of gold" or the surname Golden, originally given as a nickname to someone with blond 👱‍♀👱 hair. Several examples of 📛Golden have been noted from late 19th-century records, and one occurrence in 1915. Modern form of the name, very rarely used, appears to be 📛Goldie and 📛Golda.

📛Nameberry🍒 says, "like Silver, Golden is a shimmering, metallic color name. It could work as an unexpected route to the vintage nickname Goldie or a less floral alternative to Marigold." 📛NB🍒 also says, "around 100 babies were called Golden in the latest stats, when it appeared as a gender neutral choice." It is currently #977 on US Top 1000. 

📍Sunny California (where Golden Brooks was born) fittingly and 📍Utah are where the most Goldens live.

I like the name 📛Golden – it's 🔆bright and bold. 💥 I remember when I first heard of Golden Brooks decades ago, I thought her name was a stage name. 🤦🏾‍♀️ I like 📛Golden more so for a 💗girl's name than a boy but a 💙boy named 📛Golden is still gold. 👌🏾

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛GOLDENS:

📛Golden Raye (💗daughter of ⚽soccer team owner Brittany Mahomes) 

📛Fawnie Golden (💗daughter of 🤳🏽influencer Nara Smith) 

📛Golden 📙 (🐎horse character in the book Silver Brumby by Elyne Mitchell)

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Golden:
https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/G/GO/GOLDEN/index.html

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Golden: 👍 OR 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛/10 

NAME OF THE DAY: May

Happy May🌸 Day! The May🌸1 holiday is a "celebration with a long and varied history, dating back millennia. Throughout the years, there have been many different events and festivities worldwide, most with the express purpose of welcoming in a change of season (spring in the Northern Hemisphere). In the 19th century, May🌸 Day took on a new meaning, as an International Workers’ Day grew out of the 19th-century labor movement for worker’s rights and an eight-hour workday in the United States," History.com states.

Today I will discussing the 📅month: 📛May🌸 as a first name. 

But first: How did May🌸 as a month get its name? 🤔 Dictionary.com dives into it: "May may seem like a short and simple name, but its origin is actually fairly complex and interesting. May refers to the fifth month of the year, with 31 days, marking spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. Named after the Roman goddess Maia, its traditional birthstone is the emerald, symbolizing growth and renewal. In English, may also functions as a modal verb, expressing possibility, permission, or a wish."

May🌸 is also another name of the hawthorn 🌸flower. 

May🌸 is a surname.📛

May 🌸 as a first name, 📛Nameberry🍒 has a lot to say: "May is a sweet old-fashioned name that hasn't been on the national charts in several decades, but is definitely sounding fresh and springlike. Parents are beginning to see it once more as one of the prettiest middle name options. May was as high on the list as Number 57 in the 1880s; it's now 228 on Nameberry. May started as one of the innumerable pet forms of Mary and Margaret, as well as a springtime month name along with April and June." May🌸 ranks #963 in US Top 1000. 📊 

The other May🌸, 📛Mae (a la West🎥) is also dubbed, "one of the prettiest and most popular middle name options for girls," by 📛NB🍒. "Mae belongs to spring mornings and handwritten letters. One syllable that somehow contains multitudes. It’s the kind of name that feels like a secret handshake between parents who appreciate understated elegance. Not flashy, just perfect," MSN's Lifestyle Parenting blog believes — calling the alternative to the original May🌸 one of '15 short girl names becoming the most popular choices.'

📍California and 📍🌺Hawaii are the places where the most Mays🌸reside. 

I like the name 📛May🌸 because it's a 📅month name and an old fashioned name — but I admit, I like it more for a middle name. 🤷🏾‍♀️ It just somehow goes so 👌🏾 well with almost any first name. But I'd use the even more ⭐retro 📛Mae more so for a middle name over using May🌸. I truly was unaware how 📈popular the name 📛May🌸 (& 📛Mae) really are until I started researching for this piece on the month name — at least as a middle name. That proves it is not going anywhere anytime soon. As it shouldn't. 📛May🌸 is super simple name yes but it's a really nice, sweet name for a 💗girl — and a wonderful middle 📛 name choice as well — that just seems to fit ✔ well with seemingly most first names.

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛MAYS🌸:

📛Mary "May🌸 Whitty" Webster 🎥 (actress)

📛Maj "May🌸 Britt" Wilkens 🎥 (actress & ❌ex 💕 wife of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.)

📛May🌸 Miller ✍🏽 / 🎭 (poet & playwright)

📛May🌸 Sutton 🎾 (professional tennis player) 

📛May🌸 Hezlet 🏌️‍♀️ (professional golfer)

📛May🌸 Allison 🎥 (actress)

📛May🌸 Robson 🎥 (actress)

📛May🌸 Hong 🎥 (actress)

📛May🌸 Chin 🎥 (actress)

📛May🌸 Pang (Beatles singer John Lennon's ❌ex 💕 partner)

📛May🌸 "May J." Hashimoto 🎤 (singer)

📛May🌸 Hariri 🎤/ 🎥 (singer & actress) 

📛May🌸 Calamawy 🎥 (actress) 

📛May🌸 Benben (💗daughter of actress Madeline Stowe & actor Brian Benben) 

📛May🌸 Nivola (💗daughter of actress Emily Morton & actor Alessandro Nivola)

📛Ella May🌸 Clapton (💗daughter of singer Eric Clapton) 

📛Lykke May🌸 Anderson 👠 (model)

📛May🌸 Clutterbucket 📺 (tv show character on Girl Meets World, played by ✨Sabrina Carpenter)

📛May🌸 Welland 📕 (book character in The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton)

📛May🌸 Bartram 📕 (book character in The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James)

📛May🌸 Singer 📕 (book character in The Selection by Kiera Cass)

📛May🌸 "Aunt May" Parker 👵 (character in Marvel comic book of Peter Parker aka 🕷Spiderman's aunt)

📛May🌸 "Mayday" Parker 👧 (character in Marvel comic book of Peter Parker aka 🕷Spiderman's daughter)

📛May🌸 Kanker (🖋cartoon character in Ed, Edd n Eddy)

📛May🌸 (cartoon character in 💛Pokemon) 

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛May🌸:

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/M/MA/MAY/index.html

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛May🌸: 👍 OR 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓/10  

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📛📅April: https://itsrainingnames.blogspot.com/2026/04/name-of-day-april.html

📛📅June: https://itsrainingnames.blogspot.com/2025/06/name-of-day-june.html

📛📅August: https://itsrainingnames.blogspot.com/2025/08/name-of-day-august.html

📛📅October: https://itsrainingnames.blogspot.com/2025/10/name-of-day-october.html