NAME OF THE DAY: Adonis

My ⬅previous piece was on the name 📛Drake and🎙Drake Graham — so what better time to present the next 📛Name Of The Day📅 as: 📛Adonis — the adorable name of his 👨‍👦son!

Adorable, however may not be the right word 🤔... to describe the name of a literal Greek god, Adonis, the god of beauty and desire in Greek 📖mythology. Greek Gods & Goddesses says on Adonis, "When most people hear the name Adonis, they imagine masculine beauty and the desire of women. Even today, the name is synonymous with physical perfection in men." 

PerfectName.us discloses, "Adonis has been popular throughout history, appearing in various forms across different cultures. In the Middle East, for example, it is used as both a given name and a surname. It has also gained popularity in other parts of the world, particularly in Europe and North America, where it is often associated with its Greek origins."

Behind The Name goes into depth on Adonis' backstory: "From Phoenician 𐤀𐤃𐤍 (ʾadon) meaning "lord, master". In Greek myth Adonis was a handsome young shepherd killed while hunting a wild boar. The anemone flower is said to have sprung from his blood. Because he was loved by Aphrodite, Zeus allowed him to be restored to life for part of each year. The Greeks borrowed this character from Semitic traditions, originally Sumerian (see Dumuzi)."

📛Nameberry🍒 describes 📛Adonis as a "high-pressure name often synonymous with masculine beauty." 📛NB🍒 goes on to say, "Nonetheless, many mythological names that would have previously been deemed off limits have made their way up the popularity charts—for instance, Penelope currently ranks highly for girls. And indeed, Adonis was one of the fastest-rising boys' names of 2016, moving up 307 spots on the U.S. popularity chart in just one year." Adonis is currently 📈high at #241 on US Top 1000.📊

📍California and 📍District of Columbia are where the most boys and men named Adonis live. 

I know of one 📛Adonis 🤗 in my own life — a childhood acquaintance from my 🗽NYC neighborhood  growing up. In ⏪2023 I ran into her after finding out from her father a year earlier she had a 👶son named Adonis. When we were catching up, I 🎉congratulated her and I remarked I loved her son's name 👍🏾👍🏾 and made sure to mention how it was 🎙Drake's son's name too. 😎 She thanked me with a smile 🙂 but didn't share if she named her son Adonis because she was a Drake fan. I think it's really something I know an Adonis only because it was one of my favorite names in either middle or high 🏫school (the myth of Adonis stuck out to me when learning about the god in class... I think...🤔 because that's the only way I would have come across the name) 💯%. I had it stored for the name of my future son (as an adult❗😅). I remember telling my old best friend how much I liked the name as a future baby name and she laughed asking incredulously, "Adonis?!" She thought it was "too much" basically. 🙄 As an adult I eventually outgrew that name as a choice for a hypothetical son's name of mine 😭 but I still liked the name... only in secret kind of. 🤐 I still really love 🥰 the name 📛Adonis today. 🤷🏾‍♀️ 

Is 📛Adonis an arrogant 😏 name to give or have? ✋🏾Yes. No.⛔ 😔Maybe so... It definitely takes a parent guts 👌🏾 to give a name loaded with the pressure to be flawless, to a little 💙boy (it's like naming a 💗girl 📛Pretty) and to wear the name with confidence (yet humbly hopefully too), as a man. 😰 As for Drake choosing 📛Adonis — it's the perfect name (📛Romeo💘 I'd go with as a 🥈runner up) for the son of Drake. 

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛ADONISES:

📛Adonis Georgiadis  (Greek politician)

📛Adonis Bosso 👨🏿(model)

📛Adonis Stevenson 🥊 (pro. boxer)

📛Adonis Garcia ⚾ (former pro. baseball player)

📛William H. "Adonis " Terry ⚾ (former pro. baseball player)

📛Adonis Jordan 🏀 (former pro. basketball player)

📛Adonis Creed 🎥 (character "son of Apollo Creed" in the Rocky movies)

📛Adonis Jackson 📺(character in tv show Miami Vice)

📛Adonis (aka Danburite) 🖊🗯 (character in anime Sailor V)

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Adonis: 

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/A/AD/ADONIS/index.html

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

NAME OF THE DAY: Drake

With 🎙rapper Drake breaking 💥 the internet 💻 with the release of his new 💿album 🧊Iceman plus two 😮surprise albums — I will be talking about the 🎼In My Feelings (aka "Kiki do you love me?") 🎤singer's stage name and middle name: 📛Drake

The 🗣podcaster Bobbi Althoff had Drake on her show for the first time years ago, and a funny 😂 discussion was had on his name (@🔊00:35 & @🔊27:33): 

Can you introduce yourself?

Drake

That's not your name

That is my middle name

That's not your real name

That's my government name, middle name

Why would you go with that? What's your 1st name?

My 1st name is Aubrey

Mmm hmmm. I see why you go with that

I think my mom named me after a lawyer... My mom named me Aubrey a guy's name

Aubrey's not a guy's name

Yes it is

No it's not

Yes it is

Have you ever met a male Aubrey?

Yeah you're looking at him. I met myself

You don't even go by that because that's such a bad name

No that's not true

Why do you go by Drake?

Because it's shorter. People with two syllables are way less successful than people with one sorry...

Do you like when people call you Aubrey?

If it's genuine

📛Aubrey (meaning: 🧝‍♂️elf ruler) 📛Drake (meaning: 🐲dragon or 🦆duck) Graham is his full name.

📛Aubrey is a girl's name also. 📛Nameberry🍒 says, "Once an exclusively masculine name, Aubrey tipped towards feminine in 1974, and is now given to girls 96% of the time."

📛Drake can also be a girl's name. 📛NB🍒 says, "The name Drake peaked for girls at #10056 in 1997." 

📛Drake used as a boy's name, is described by 📛Nameberry🍒 as a, "simple one-syllable name that has been on the popularity list since the mid-1980s, Drake is most associated today with the single-named rapper (born Aubrey). The name peaked at Number 197 in 2010 and has since been on a slow decline, but it still can be counted among the stylish contemporary boy names starting with D." 

Drake is at #827 in US Top 1000 as of 2025. 

In Canada however, Drake's hometown, the name Drake was not on 2025's most popular baby names list  — Drake the baby name is at #1458 in popularity as of 2022.  

Drake also is a word name, meaning: a small cannon, used especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Behind The Name points out, "this name coincides with the unrelated English word drake meaning male duck."

Drake as well, is a surname from the: "English surname derived from the Old Norse byname Draki or the Old English byname Draca both meaning "dragon", both via Latin from Greek δράκων (drakon) meaning "dragon, serpent.""  

📍California and 📍Hawaii are the US states where the most Drakes reside. 

Initially, I was not 🙅🏾‍♀️ a fan of the name 📛Drake. I thought it was a made up 🤷🏾‍♀️ stage name when I first hard of Drake the rapper's name being that. I equated the name Drake usually with the lusty 🥵leads of 🥱boring ⏪historical 💞romance novels.📕 I used to even often confuse Drake with the name 📛Declan (I don't like❗). Then I found out years later that Drake was the rapper's real name 🤦🏾‍♀️ — his middle however (I like it more than his first name admittedly. 🙋🏾‍♀️ It can get tricky, not to mix up Aubrey with 📛Audrey. 😬 It makes me wonder if his first name was that instead, would he have used Drey as his stage name? 🤔 because it sounds like Drake...) and I thought that was really cool. 😎 As I became a fan of his 🎶music, I started to like the name Drake. Still I'm not the biggest fan of 📛Drake the name as a whole. 😖 📛Drake may not be one of my absolute favorite names — however it's still a ✔good, ✔strong💪, ✔masculine name that I can appreciate. 👌🏾 But I am a big fan 😍 of 📛Drake — being the rapper Drake's name. 

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛DRAKES:

📛Jared Drake Bell 🎥 /🎤 (actor & singer)

📛Drake Parker 📺 (character on tv show Drake & Josh played by Jared Drake Bell)

📛Donald Drake Hogestyn 🎥 (actor)

📛Drake Dunsmore 🏈 (pro football player)

📛Drake Maye 🏈 (pro football player)

📛Drake Nevis 🏈 (pro football player)

📛Drake Berehowsky 🏒 (former pro hockey player)

📛Drake Richard Diener 🏀 (pro basketball player)

📛Drake Gaines (💙son of 📺reality stars Chip & Joanna Gaines)

📛Drake Saul (💙son of 👠model Cassi Van Den Dungen and Brad Saul)

📛Drake Mallard 🦆 (duck character in cartoon Darkwing Duck) 

📛Drake Merwin 📘 (character in book series Gone by Michael Grant

📛Drake 📘 (character in book series Beyonders by Brandon Mull)

📛Drake Bamfylde 📘 (character in book The Maid of Sker by R.D. Blackmore)

📛Drake Stone 🎥(character in movie The Sorcerer's Apprentice)

📛Drake McHugh 🎥 (character in movie King's Row)

📛Drake Howard 📺 (character on tv show The Office)

📛Drake Ramoray 📺 (character on Friends in a fictional take on Days of Our Lives)

📛Drake Edgewater 🎮 (character in videogame Quarantine)

📛Drake 🎮 (character in videogame NBA street) 

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Drake: 

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/D/DR/DRAKE/index.html

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

The Top 10 Baby Names of 2025

📅Friday (5/8) 🌅morning I was greeted🤗 to this 📨email from the 

U.S. Social Security Administration announcing... 

🥁...

🥳Surprise?!

The full 📃list the SSA released on the Top 10 Baby Names of 2025 goes as follows:

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The only real surprise is that there's one new girl's name: 📛Eliana. ⏪2024's list had 📛Ava at #9.

📛Eliana is the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of the French 📛Eliane (root: the Greek word Helios or sun. Probably from Aeliana, the feminine form of the Roman name Aelianus, which was derived from the Roman family name Aelius) and means: my God has answered.

I like the meaning of 📛Eliana's name but... I'm not a huge fan of the name 🤷🏾‍♀️ — though it is a pretty sounding name ✔ — and I do like 'E' names. ✔ It is nice to see a name with some 🌶spice enter into the Top 10 list this year. 👌🏾 But I ✨wish there was a truly 🦄unique or 😮outrageous name in one of the spots (male side included). 

Maybe in 2035? 😫 

📌👀Check out the video version: 🔝Top 10 👶Baby 📛Names of 2025 - Official List📃

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lzdMmycA_E

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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🌹 — or if has the sweet spelling of 📛Sundae🍨 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 ✔️right 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