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  

📌👀CHECK OUT ALL OF ☔IRNs📛 POSTS ON THE 📅MONTH 📛NAMES ⬇:

📛📅January: https://itsrainingnames.blogspot.com/2026/01/name-of-day-january.html

📛📅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

CELEBRITY BABY NAME REVEAL: Icelynn

Scotty of 😈Bad Girls Club📺 📢announced her 👶🏽newborn🎉 daughter's name: 📛🧊Icelynn! 💗

Her full name is 📛🧊Icelynn Blaire. Her middle (meaning: dweller on the plain) the English version of the Scottish: 📛Blair – "Blair with a little something extra," 📛Nameberry🍒 says of the 'e' that "feminizes the name." 

📛🧊Icelynn is an, "invented English smoosh name, combination of word name 🧊Ice and suffix on-trend -lynn" – meaning "beautiful ice; frozen lake; Iceland" – having the wintery feel of Winter and Wynter. 🧊Icelynn first appeared on the US charts in 2006, with 6 births (spelling variant 📛🧊Icelyn debuted the following year with 5 births). In the most recent year, more than 200 baby girls were named 🧊Icelynn in the US, rising it almost into the Top 1000 [#922]," explains 📛NB🍒.

I really love 😍 📛🧊Icelynn as a name. It's very unique🦄, cool 😎 and so pretty.💗 I actually proclaimed it last year as one of the prettiest names I've ever heard. 👂🏾 Last year I saw 👀 it for the very first time as it also made It's ☔Raining 📛Names: 📃The Best & Worst Names of 2025, being in the 🏆'Best' category. 

As for Scotty naming her daughter 📛🧊Icelynn it couldn't have been a more perfect name. Her real first name is 📛Scotlynd! 👌🏾 

Someone commented on the IG post revealing her daughter's name: 

“Icelynn and Scotlynd 

are such cute mommy and daughter names” 

-@rubyyalexaaa

I 💯% agree! 🥰

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛🧊Icelynn: 👍 OR 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗/10 

Is Scottie the new Billie?

📛Nameberry🍒 believes the name 📛Billie was "destined for stardom."⭐ That certainly seems to be the case. Billie was the original 💙masculine name turned 💗feminine as a growing girl's name choice starting in the 60s & 70s with 🎾tennis' Billie (Jean) King reigning in the sports world — followed right into the 80s with the 🎼fictional Billie (Jean) in Michael Jackson's popular song of the same name. Then ⏩fast forward to 2019 with the rise of budding, but immensely talented 🎤singer Billie Eilish. 

The name 📛Billie (meaning: resolute protection, a diminutive of 📛Wilhelmina which comes from 📛Wilhelm which is the German form of 📛William. 📛Bill is a short form of the English William, Billie being the female version of it.) is currently #694 on US Top 1000. But "to track its path from blue to pink, Billie was 100% male in 1880, was 55% female just a decade later, in the girls' Top 100 by 1928, and is now overwhelmingly female," 📛Nameberry🍒 breaks down.  

But Billie may have some stiff competition with 📛Scottie — the 💙boy-turned-girl💗 name that's 📈rising ⏫fast. At least in the realm of ⭐celebrity babies being born. Just recently, 🎙rapper Eminem's daughter Alaina (whose last name is Scott) named her daughter: 📛Scottie Marie Moeller. And last year 2025, 😅comedian Pete Davidson welcomed a daughter named: 📛Scottie 🌹Rose. 📛Nameberry🍒 quickly points out, they weren't the only parents to choose 📛Scottie 🌹Rose: "Youtubers Alyssa Hyde and Charles Davis chose it for their daughter earlier in the same year, while influencer Presley Gaspard selected it in 2024." And way ⏪before Scottie's take off 🚀 on 📛name charts📊 in the 2020s, in 1921 was the birth of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald's daughter: Frances Scott Fitzgerald but often called Scottie. "Scottie" is also another name for the Scottish Terrier 🐶dog breed. 

📛Scottie is a nickname of 📛Scot (a variation of: the surname📛Scott): a masculine name (a la Scottie Pippen the 🏀basketball player) with: "clear geographic origins, directly referring to a person from Scotland. Derived from the Latin 'Scotus,' meaning 'Scottish,' this concise name carries strong cultural associations with Scottish heritage and identity. As a given name, Scot gained modest popularity in the mid-20th century, particularly in America, often chosen by families with Scottish ancestry. The single-t spelling distinguishes it slightly from the more common 'Scott,' (a cool, windswept, surfer babe-magnet in 1965, a nice dad -- or even granddad -- today) giving it a more direct connection to its ethnic origins," says 📛Nameberry🍒.

📛Nameberry🍒 describes 📛Scottie as: "sassy, old school vibes, its cheerful, snappy sounds, and its fresh, unisex image — managing to feel stylish, preppy, playful, and tough all at once." 📛NB🍒 crowns 👑Scottie: "one of the fastest rising names for girls in the US in 2023, and then again in 2024," although, "Scottie only entered the US Top 1000 in 2022, but rose 300 places in 2023, then another 400 in 2024." Scottie is high at #202 on US Top 1000 currently. Scottie surprising is given to 💗girls "90% of the time, with 1517 receiving the name in a recent year." 📛Nameberry🍒 believes Scottie's new popularity, "reflects America's current love for grandpa names for girls, like Frankie, Ozzie, and Lenny." 📛NB🍒 points out that Scottie, "on the rise in The Netherlands too, has replaced 📛Scotlyn [📛Scotlynd is a variation, belonging to "Scotty" (cute but slight masculine nickname) of 😈Bad Girls Club📺] which seemed to be making moves in the 2010s." 

📍North Carolina is the state where the most Scotties (Scotty of reality show 😈Bad Girls Club📺 was born in 🗺Raleigh) seem to live.

I love 😍 the name 📛Scottie, it's one of my favorite names — it's cute, cool and carefree — but only for a 💙boy! I don't understand 😖 how it came to be a feminine name 🤔 and I don't like it used for a girl. 🙅🏾‍♀️ The first time I did hear it used for a girl's name is with Scotty of Bad Girls. I was perplexed ❓ at first but it all made sense when I found her her first name is the lovely Scotlynd. 😮 Scottie as a nickname isn't so bad using it... but a full name? 🤨 I see only a boy being able to rock Scottie successfully. 👌🏾 On the other hand, I 🙋🏾‍♀️ love the name 📛Scotland and all its variations: ✔📛Scotlyn and ✔📛Scotlynd for a 💗girl. 

Out of the two sought-after boy-turned-girl names to have: 📛Billie and 📛Scottie, I prefer 📛Billie. 🤷🏾‍♀️ Maybe it's because I grew up knowing Billie to be used as a girl's name too. I always knew Scottie as a boy's name until recently so it will take time for it to stick as a unisex name. Although 📛Scottie is ahead at #202 and 📛Billie is behind at #694 — I still think I'm more likely to meet a Billie over a Scottie (I have yet to meet either 😑). I 🔮foresee 📛Scottie eventually 📉dropping on the name charts — it seems to be more of a fad name (especially 📛Scottie 🌹Rose. Is she trying to be the new 📛Billie Jean?! 🤦🏾‍♀️) at the moment. I'm skeptical 📛Scottie will stand the test of time being chosen 🥇 decades from now — the premier 🍼baby girl's💗 name with a boyish edge — over beguiling, beloved 📛Billie. 🥰

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛SCOTTIES:

📛Scottie Nell Hughes 📰 🎙 (journalist & political commentator)

📛"Scottie" Thompson [born Susan Scott Thompson] 🎥 (actress) 

📛"Scottie Beam" [born Deanii Andrea Scott] 📻 (media personality) 

📛Scottie King 🎥 (character in film The Descendants) 

📛Scottie 📺 (character on t.v. show Last Call)

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Scottie:

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/S/SC/SCOTTIE/index.html

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Scottie: 👎 OR 💗💗/10 

Billie Jean, Diana, Annie & Susie: Michael Jackson Songs Featuring Female Names

💐Legendary 🎤🕺🏽 entertainer extraordinaire 👑Michael Jackson produced a multitude of hit 🎼songs — four of which I will be discussing — as they feature the first names: 📛Billie Jean, 📛Diana, 📛Annie and 📛Susie. 

"She told me her name was Billie Jean," Jackson sings of a beautiful woman with movie star looks. However, Billie Jean is not only a looker but a liar allegedly, accusing a man of being the father of her son.

The name 📛Billie Jean (excluding 🎾tennis' Billie Jean King) is forever associated with a woman being the ultimate homewrecker. But Billie Jean is a badass 😎 name nevertheless. 📛Billie Jean is obviously the names 📛Billie (meaning: resolute protection, English, diminutive of 📛Wilhelmina) + 📛Jean (meaning: God is gracious, French, variation of 📛Johanna) = the perfect name combination. 📛Nameberry🍒 says Billie Jean peaked for girls in 1984 (Billie Jean the song was released in 1983) at #4498. Boyish Billie alone has become a popular name (#694 ranking in US Top 1000) while old fashioned Jean (on name charts since 1880) is "extremely well-used as a middle name," points out 📛NB🍒. 

I love 😍 the name 📛Billie Jean and personally would not mind if I had been named it 🤷🏾‍♀️ (quite possible too because my late father was a huge Michael Jackson fan, the song came out days before I was born and my late mother said the song was played for me when I was a 👶🏾baby 🥰). But with how shocking the story of the fictional Billie Jean is, perhaps having it as a first name would be too scandalous 😬 (at least during the 80s if a girl grew up named such). Billie Jean the song would not be the same if it were entitled only: Billie or just: Jean. Separately the names are fine but together they are a perfect powerhouse. 💥

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Billie Jean: 👍 OR 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗/10 

"Dirty Diana," Jackson bluntly sings of Diana the fan of every musician, who likes boys in bands, knows when they're in town  — and waits backstage for them after shows hoping she gains stardom.⭐

Say the name 📛Diana and most often think 👑Princess right before. So for Jackson to have a racy song with the first name of a prestigous royal family member within is jaw-dropping. 😮 But no the song was not about the Princess of Wales! In an interview with Barbara Walters, Jackson shared the memory of a London concert with Princess Diana present: "I took it out of the show in honor of her royal highness. She took me away and she said, Are you going to do 'Dirty Diana'? So, I said, 'No I took it out of the show because of you.' She said, 'No! I want you to do it. Do the song.'"

In the US the name Diana is #243 in the Top 1000, making it a pretty popular name. 📛Diana is of Latin origin and means: divine, originating from the Roman goddess Diana 'of the hunt.' 📛Nameberry🍒 thinks "Diana is a gorgeous and still underused choice." Yet it is still more used than smiliar 📛Diane, which 📛NB🍒 jokes, "middle-aged Diane has been overshadowed by the a-ending version of her name." 

I really like the name 📛Diana, it's a beautiful and timeless name. It definitely has a bit more oomph! than slightly boring sister 📛Diane. If Jackson's Dirty Diana were instead: Dirty Diane it would not be the same song. 📛Diana was definitely the ✔right name choice to use. 💯

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Diana: 👍 OR 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗/10 

"Annie are you okay?" Jackson asks of distressed victim named Annie in his smooth song Smooth Criminal. That question sung by Jackson was, "inspired by Resusci Anne, the name of the model of doll used to teach CPR. Jackson combined the question trainees learn to ask, “are you OK?” with the name of the doll to create the iconic line," according to American Songwriter.🖊

The name 📛Annie is often a winsome (think Little Orphan Annie) nickname for 📛Ann —  which means: grace (deriving from 📛Hannah in Hebrew). "Annie is one of the most open and optimistic, the-sun'll-come-out-tomorrow type of name. It strikes a nice old-fashioned-but-jaunty chord that still has appeal," swears 📛Nameberry🍒. It ranks at #191 in US Top 1000 and has been a Top 20 name from the 1880s to 1907. 

📛Annie is an adorable name but maybe too... childish? 🤔 At least to use as a first name. I like it mainly as a nickname to the more serious: 📛Ann, 📛Anne or girly 📛Anna. Jackson again, made the correct name choice in choosing 📛Annie: "Anna are you okay?" or "Ann/e are you okay?" No, both sound off. 🙅🏾‍♀️

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Annie: 👍 / 👎 OR 💗💗💗💗💗/10 

"Susie got your number and Susie ain't your friend," Jackson warns of seductive woman who is out to kill, and ends up stabbing 🔪 someone, in: 🩸Blood On The Dance Floor. 💃 

The name 📛Susie (meaning: lily, of Hebrew origin) is usually short for 📛Susan (or 📛Susannah). 📛Nameberry🍒 claims, "In the 1950s and 60s, Susie was the name every little girl wanted for her very own," — and it might be — "off its fashion peak but it's still cute and perky." Susie ranks #970 in the US Top 1000.

📛Susie is simple yet cutesy when used as a real life name and I like it just okay 👌🏾 — but it doesn't seem like it would be the name of a femme fatale 👄 —  yet it somehow it works well (over 📛Susan, too dull 🥱 and 📛Susannah, too peppy 😃) in Jackson's dark 😈 song. 

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Susie: 👍 OR 💗💗💗💗💗💗/10 

In 🎉celebration of the Michael 🎶biopic 🎥movie 👀check out related ☔IRN📛 posts below⬇:

📌📖READ ALL ABOUT THE NAME: 📛Jaafar:

https://itsrainingnames.blogspot.com/2025/11/name-of-day-jaafar.html

📌📖READ ALL ABOUT THE NAME: 📛Jackson:

https://itsrainingnames.blogspot.com/2025/06/name-of-day-jackson.html

NAME OF THE DAY: April

🎉Happy April Fool's Day! Today on the least serious holiday, one full of 😒 pranks, laughs 😂 and for the jokesters 🤡 — I will talk about the once most popular 📅month name: 📛April☔

📛Nameberry🍒 points out, "April☔ has been overtaken by June (for girls) and August (for boys), as well as the charmingly old-fashioned May." April☔ ranks at #502 on US Top 1000. 

A variant of April☔: 📛Apryl (a la Jones🎥) and the French version is 📛Avril (a la Lavigne🤘). 

Dictionary.com's history on 📅April is extensive: "There are a few common theories behind April‘s naming. One is that the name is rooted in the Latin Aprilis, which is derived from the Latin aperire meaning “to open”—which could be a reference to the opening or blossoming of flowers and trees, a common occurrence throughout the month of April in the Northern Hemisphere. Another theory holds that since months are often named for gods and goddesses, and since Aphrilis is derived from the Greek Aphrodite, it is possible the month was named for the Greek goddess of love (the goddess that the Romans called Venus)! Even now, April is a popular name. And, as if that isn’t enough of a mystery, April also has yet another origination story. Around the fifth century, the Anglo-Saxons referred to April as Oster-monath or Eostre-monath, a reference to the goddess Eostre, whose feast was celebrated during the month. The Venerable Bede, a monk from the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter, believed this gave root to the word Easter—which is most often observed during the month of April."

 📍Texas and 📍Maine are the states where the most Aprils☔ live. 

I've known three Aprils☔so far in my life (in 📍NYC 🗽) — a 🏫classmate and two neighbors🌇 — all very nice people. 👍🏾👍🏾 📛NB🍒 is adamant June is more ⬆ popular than April☔ currently ⬇ but... I've yet to meet a June (a May or an August). 🤔 

January ➡ October ➡ June ➡ May ➡August ➡April☔is the order of my favorite 📅month 📛names. April☔ is certainly not 🙅🏾‍♀️ my favorite because it's personally 😞 my least favorite month... but I like it as a first name fine. 👌🏾 I like that April☔ is a month name first of all and it's a cute enough name.

 I 🔮predict at some point 📛April☔will 📈overtake 📛June 📉 as most popular month name again —  but the two favorite 📅calendar names📛 seem like they will always be in friendly competition to out chart📊 the other. 

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛APRILS☔:

📛April☔ Winchell 🗣 (voice actress of cartoon character Clarabelle Cow 🐮 on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse) 

📛April☔ Clark 🎥(actress) 

📛April☔ Telek 🎥 / 👸 (actress and former beauty queen) 

📛Elinor "April☔ March" Blake 🎤 (singer) 

📛April☔ June May (💗daughter of late comedian Ralphie May)

📛April☔ Ludgate 📺 (t.v. show character from Parks & Recreation)

📛April☔ Rhodes 📺 (t.v. show character from Glee)

📛April☔ Young 🧛‍♂️📺 (t.v. show character from The Vampire Diaries) 

📛April☔ Wheeler 📘 / 🎥(book & movie main character from Revolutionary Road) 

📛April☔ O'Neil 📰🐢 (cartoon character in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) 

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛April☔:

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/A/AP/APRIL/index.html

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛April☔: 👍 OR 💓💓💓💓💓💓/10