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: Summer

Happy Summer! 🌞 Today's name of focus will aptly be on the name: 📛Summer

📛Summer derives from the season of Summer of course but is originally from the old English sumor. A variant of Summer is 📛Sommer (the German word for Summer the season).    

MyNameStats states, the sunny, warm state of California is of course where baby girls are most likely named Summer, 🌺 Hawaii too.

As of 2024, Summer is the 142nd most popular name for a girl to be named, Nameberry reports by way of the Social Security Administration popular list of baby names.

I had a co-worker with the middle name Summer and it definitely fit her carefree personality. I was a bit jealous when I found out she had Summer as her name I admit.    

I love the name 📛Summer, it's very feminine and very pretty. And it's my second favorite name to used of the four seasons (Autumn🍂, Summer, Winter❄, Spring🌿) for a first name. 

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛SUMMERS:

📛Summer Walker 👩🏾‍🎤 (singer) 

📛Summer Rain Rutler (💗daughter of 🎤 singer Christina Aguilera)

📛Summer Brownlee (💗daughter of rapper 🎤 Yung Miami)

📛 Danielle "Summer Rae" Moinet 👱🏻‍♀️🥊 (ex wrestler) 

📛Summer Pardi 👱‍♀️ (ex wife of 🤠🎤 country singer Jon Pardi) 

📛Summer Lee  (congresswoman in Pennsylvania)

📛Summer Moon🌙-Utah Wells 👧🏼⚠ (missing little girl❗) 

📛Summer Day 📙 (character in the book His Summer Her Storm by Lady Dia) 

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Summer:

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

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