Fruit For Thought: Apple, Cherry, Fig & Pumpkin As Names In Forbidden Fruits Film

🍏Apple, 🍒Cherry, 🌳Fig and 🎃Pumpkin are not only names of fruits — but the names of four friends (and ✨witches🧙‍♀️🧙🏼‍♀️🧙🏽‍♀️🧙🏻‍♀️) in new 🎥film Forbidden Fruits: 

      

The names of these characters as fruits are very clever 🧠 and really fun. 🤗 I like some more than others 🤷🏾‍♀️ but as a whole, I love 🥰 the idea 💡 of their names matching in a sense. 👌🏾  

These fruity, cutesy names aren't however just made up names for a movie — they're all 😮 very real first names used for 👶baby 💗girls in real life:

📛🍏Apple: "When people talk about unique baby names, Apple is often one of the first examples they mention. Apple made international headlines when Gwyneth Paltrow chose this wholesome fruit name for her daughter. Many have called it ridiculous, but we have to admit, we find it appealing enough to list as one of our top cute baby names," says 📛Nameberry🍒

📛🍒Cherry: "Sweet Cherry remains remarkably underused - at its peak in 1948. The unsavory slang meaning no doubt goes a long way towards explaining its fall from grace," says 📛Nameberry🍒

📛🌳Fig: "Fig was the unlikely name of a beautiful character in Curtis Sittenfeld's Man of My Dreams. Better bets: Plum or even Apple. Still, you might consider Fig as an unusual nickname for any more formal F-starting name, from Frances to Fiona," says 📛Nameberry🍒

📛🎃Pumpkin: "A common name for orange-colored cats. Fun fact: the word pumpkin is derived from the Greek pepōn, translating to "large melon,"" says 📛Nameberry🍒 

💭If I could personally ⏪re-name📛 the characters (I'd keep 📛🍒Cherry ✔ & 📛🎃Pumpkin ✔) but for the rest — I'd pick the names of my 👍🏾👍🏾favorite fruits: 📛🍑Peach and 📛🍊Tangerine (or 📛Nectarine). 😍

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛🍏Apple: 👍/👎 OR 💚💚💚💚💚/10 

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛🍒Cherry: 👍 OR   / 10  

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛🌳Fig: 👎 OR 🤎/10 

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛🎃Pumpkin: 👍 OR 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡/10 

NAME OF THE DAY: Harvest

The name 📛Harvest is from the word 'harvest' meaning: "the gathering of crops" —  "from Old English hærfest" —  and is transferred use of the surname Harvester📛.

Harvest has been used as a first name since the 18th century and started off as a unisex name, Nameberry explains, "in the US data for last year was starting to lean more female, given to 29 girls and 11 boys." Behind the Name however states, "SSA data also shows that Harvest is used as a boy's name 53% of the time." 🤔 The states where there are the most Harvests are in 📍California and 📍D.C.

I love the name 📛Harvest. 🥰 I think it's a gorgeous name and I never knew it is used for a first name until recently. 😮 I prefer Harvest 💗more for a girl's name but I see why Harvest 💙 can be unisex and for a boy — because it looks/sounds similar to the name 📛Harvey. 

📛Harvest made Nameberry's 🍂Autumn Names📛 📃list of and is described as: "pleasantly archaic, rich and ripe." ⌛👌🍇

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛HARVESTS:

📛Harvest Prude 📰 (journalist)

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Harvest:

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/H/HA/HARVEST/index.html

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

📰📛Harvest made it onto the ☔IRN📛 🏆 The Best & Worst 👎👎 📛Names of 2025 📃list!:

https://itsrainingnames.blogspot.com/2025/12/its-raining-names-best-worst-names-of.html

NAME OF THE DAY: October

🎉Happy October! Today is the beginning of the month (my favorite month 🎃) and therefore I will talk about the name 📛October 🧡

October: "is the tenth month by our Gregorian calendar and is from the Latin octo and Greek okto, meaning “eight.” October was the eighth month of the year rather than the tenth as it is today. The Roman calendar was only ten months long and included the following months: Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Junius, Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November, and December. As you can see, January and February hadn’t been added to the calendar yet! Like its neighboring months September, November, and December, the month of October kept its numerical name, even after Julius Caesar expanded the calendar year from 10 months to 12. The use of October increased after the Norman invasion of 1066, eventually replacing the Old English vernacular term Winterfylleð (“Winter full moon”)," Dictionary.com explains. 

On October being used as a first name, Nameberry asks, "What is so rare as a month named June? October – and November and December – are a lot rarer. Brisk and substantial, they're so much more memorable and modern than April or May." 

October is not unanimously seen as a unisex name but both baby boys and girls use it. Although, My Name Stats claims according to SSA data, usually October is used as a girl's name 100% of the time. The most Octobers can be found fittingly in 📍Massachusetts, followed by Rhode Island. October also is a surname. 📛

October is one of my favorite first names 😍 —  as in 🏆"Top 10 Favorite Names"📛📃. I love it so much! 🥰 It's a name I definitely wish ✨ I had if I could have been born with a name other than my own. 😭 I actually knew an October in my college years and I was beyond in awe 😮 at her name, envious too. 😊 I remembering going up to her after or before class one day and inquiring about her unique name. 🧐 When she said her grandmother was named October too I was really wowed! 🤯

📛October is an outstanding 👏🏾 really rare first name (I prefer it more so for a girl💗). I doubt October will ever be a popular name month 🙁 but that's part of the appeal — and that makes it even more mysterious and cool 😎 (when given to a 💙boy) to have as one's name. 😁 

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛OCTOBERS

📛💗October Gray  (daughter of Slipknot late band member Paul Gray)

📛💗October Eggers  (daughter of writer Dave Eggers)

📛💗October 🎮 (character in the game Cthulhu Saves the World)

📛💗October "Toby" Daye 📙 (character in book series by Seanan Maguire) 

📛💗October Bantum 🎥 (character in horror movie Stay Alive)

📛💙"October London" aka Jared Erskine 🎤 (singer) 

📛💙"October Jones" aka Joe Butcher  🖊(animator) 

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛October:

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/O/OC/OCTOBER/index.html

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛October: 👍 OR 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡 / 10 

NAME OF THE DAY: Autumn

Happy Fall!🍂 Today is the start of Fall season aka Autumn, so I will be diving into the name 📛Autumn 🍁  

The word autumn "comes from the French autompne, from the Latin autumnus, whose deeper roots are obscure. It’s first recorded in English as early as the late 1300s—notably, both Chaucer and Shakespeare used it in their works. Today, speakers of American English commonly use both fall and autumn to refer to the season, though fall became more common in the US by the late 1800s. Speakers of British English largely use autumn or the autumn season," according to Dictionary.com

Autumn as a first name has been, "Given to a handful of girls every year since the 1910s — though US records show it has been used since the 1870s — it began to grow more popular in the 50s and 60s, before entering the mainstream in the 70s. In a recent year, it was given to over 3000 girls in the US," Nameberry says. Autumn was #79 on the Most Popular Baby Names list in 2024.  Nameberry thinks it has, "been popular for many years without ever feeling wildly overused, Autumn can be considered familiar without being too trendy." 

Behind the Name's opinion poll on Autumn finds some to believe the name to be "strange" just like Nameberry calls it "unusual." I personally don't find Autumn to be peculiar at all. What I do find weird is supposedly sunny California is the state where most Autumns live. 🤔 However in Utah, 22.79 in every 100,000 Utahns are named Autumn. Michigan also has a 98th percentile rank for Autumn.  

I have always loved the name 📛Autumn. I think it's a sophisticated name. It's my favorite season name (followed by Summer, Winter and Spring) to be used for a first name. It's a beautiful name and I feel it's on the road to becoming a classic name even. With it being in the top 100 baby girl names, I don't think that's a stretch — 📛Autumn is an ageless name that won't be going out of style anytime soon. 

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛AUTUMNS

📛Autumn Reeser 🎥 (actress) 

📛Autumn de Wilde 🎥 / 📷 (film director & photographer) 

📛Autumn Durald 🎥 (cinematographer) 

📛Autumn Phillips 👑 (member of the Royal family) 

📛Autumn James (💗daughter of actress Jennifer Love Hewitt) 

📛Autumn Ward 💃 (bellydancer) 

📛Autumn Ward (⚠victim of homicide) 

📛Autumn Breeze 📗 (character in the book His Summer Her Storm by Lady Dia) 

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Autumn:

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/A/AU/AUTUMN/index.html

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