NAME OF THE DAY: Adonis

My ⬅previous piece was on the name 📛Drake and Aubrey🎙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 —  through 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, followed by 📛Beau🪞) 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 Black ▶ (YouTube content creator)

📛Adonis Patrick Rose 🎶 / 🥁 (musician & drummer) 

📛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 heard 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 [📑FYI I almost forgot 🤦🏾‍♀️: I have a 2nd male cousin named Aubrey ❗ We weren't close so I'm not sure how he spells his name.] 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)

📛Drake Milligan 🎤 (singer)

📛William Drake White 🎤 (lead singer of band Drake White & The Big Fire🔥)

📛Donald Drake Hogestyn 🎥 (actor)

📛Dawson "Drake Von" Bacon 🔞🎬⭐ (adult film star)

📛Drake Dunsmore 🏈 (pro football player)

📛Drake Maye 🏈 (pro football player)

📛Drake Nevis 🏈 (pro football player)

📛Drake London 🏈 (pro football player)

📛Drake Berehowsky 🏒 (former pro hockey player)

📛Drake Richard Diener 🏀 (pro basketball player)

📛Drake Baldwin ⚾ (pro baseball player)

📛Drake Hunt (💙son of 🎤singer Van Hunt Jr.)

📛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