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 🌸 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.'
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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🌸:
☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛May🌸: 👍 OR 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓/10
📌👀CHECK OUT ALL OF ☔IRNs📛 POSTS ON THE 📅MONTH 📛NAMES ⬇:
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(anime character in Sailor Moon R)