NAME OF THE DAY: Fallyn

Happy Fall!🍂 Today is the first day of the autumnal equinox aka Autumn — so I will be discussing a name that can be 🍂Fall inspired: 📛Fallyn🍁

📛Fallyn🍁 "appears to blend elements of traditional  Irish surnames like Fallon (meaning 'leader' or 'superiority') with the popular '-lyn' ending found in names like Brooklyn and Evelyn. This creative combination gives the name both Celtic roots and contemporary style," 📛Nameberry🍒 explains. "Fallyn🍁"evokes images of autumn through its phonetic similarity to 'falling,' perhaps suggesting the grace of falling 🍂 leaves. The name has gained moderate recognition since the early 2000s, appealing to parents seeking something distinctive yet easy to pronounce. Its relatively rare status makes it stand out while still sounding familiar enough to be accessible. The name carries a sense of natural beauty and gentle strength that resonates with modern naming preferences. Fallyn🍁 is a modern feminine name with an enchanting quality," 📛NB🍒 goes on to say.

Behind The Name states 📛Fallyn🍁 is a variant of Fallon (from an Irish surname that was an Anglicized form of the Irish Gaelic Ó Fallamháin, itself derived from the given name Fallamhán meaning "leader". It was popularized in the 1980s by a character on the soap opera Dynasty.).

📛Fallyn🍁is pronounced 👍🏾: 🔊https://www.ask-oracle.com/baby-name/fallyn/ 

However, another pronunciation is👎🏾: 🔊https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjwThMDpqIA 

📍Connecticut and 📍Delaware are the two states where the most 📛Fallyns🍁reside.🏡

I really love 😍the name 📛Fallyn🍁 almost as much as I love 📛Autumn. I think it's a really unique, gorgeous name (giving 🧚fairy tale 📖 vibes✨) — although it is a bit of a sad 😢 name seeing it as the word: 'falling or fallen.' But I even love 🥰 the nickname: 📛Fall🍂. 🙋🏾‍♀️ I think at some point in time, this hidden 🫣 gem 💎 of a name 📛Fallyn🍁 will 📈rise on the 📛name charts 📊 and be an alternative choice 🤞🏾 to timeless 📛Autumn. 

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Fallyn🍁:

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/F/FA/FALLYN/index.html

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Fallyn🍁: 👍 OR 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓/10

Baby names influenced by September 11

Today is Patriot Day and the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Nancy's Baby Names (a very underrated name blog, who years ago interviewed me for a 📛name 📝interview entitled: 'How do you like your name, Sidra?' [unfortunately it has been omitted 😕 but fortunately I have screenshots 📸 of it that I will post one of these days 👌🏾] ) has an 🤔intriguing 📄piece on her website in honor of September 11, 2001 (RIP to the innocent victims whose lives were lost) — where she breaks down the names influenced by the tragedy. 

Nancy explains that a "handful of conceptual names" gained ⏩traction and 📈popularity after 9/11 —  those four names being: 📛🗽Liberty, 📛⚖️Justice, 📛🦅Freedom and 📛🔔Independence. 

All About 📛🗽Liberty:

                              📖How did the U.S. Bicentennial affect the baby name 🗽Liberty?

All About 📛⚖️Justice:

📖Baby name story: ⚖️Justice

All About 📛🦅Freedom:

                                                     📖Babies named for the U.S. Centennial

All About 📛🔔Independence:

                                📖Revolutionary War twins named 🔔Independence & 🗽Liberty

Nancy asks in closing: "Which of these four abstract nouns — Liberty, Justice, Freedom, or Independence — do you like best as a baby name?" 

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☔IRN📛's 🗣️Take: "I never thought about name trends after 9/11 so this is all very new to me. 🤫 But I'd already heard of a couple of the names that rose after 9/11 like: Liberty (I recently found out this is a Puritan name 😱. I like it for a 💓girl more) and Justice (I went to 🎓college with a stand-up 👏 male classmate 😎coolly named this! And Justice has been one of my favorite female names since high 🏫school. I also love the 🎥movie 🎵Poetic Justice where the main character has the name. I love it equally for 💙boys and💓girls). But I've never heard of Freedom (outside of 'Free' the former ❤BET📺 106 & Park host, which was her stage name. Free is nice and strong 💪 but it can have a 😉risqué connotation too...I like it for 💙boys more) or Independence (I like the nickname for it more: 'Indie'. I like it more for a 💓girl) used as first names until now. 😮 So to answer Nancy's question: 📛Justice is my favorite abstract noun name, followed by 📛Liberty, 📛Independence and lastly 📛Freedom. They're all wonderfully inspiring names to have however!" 

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