• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    Summer and Autumn get used as girl’s names ~1,200 per million and ~2,000 per million per year since the 1970s or so. “Fall” is only about 3 per million, “Winter” takes off with Game of Thrones TV show around 2011 leading to 600 per million, but was in use since the 70s to the tune of about 70-100 per mil.

    (source: babycenter, but I’m not linking that ad-riddled excuse for a website)

    Parents have been identifying their kids as seasons for decades.

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      Don’t forget all the kids named after months.

      January Jones was a famous actress for a minute. November Kelly is a popular podcaster. April, May, and June are all common girl’s names.

      Parents have been identifying their kids as seasons for decades.

      Try millennia. You can find people named after months and seasons going back to antiquity. Hell, many of the months/seasons themselves were originally the names of ancient mythological gods and heroes.

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        Ah, missed that one. Thanks for pointing that out.

        Looks like ~20 per mil for most every decade except a jump from the late ‘60s to late ‘70s peaking at about 180 per mil. Perhaps a byproduct of the flower power/ hippy movement in the ‘60s?