April Showers vs. May Flowers

Up here in the Pacific Northwest we love our rain. It’s either that or be unhappy for quite a few months of the year. So with that in mind, I’m happy to announce that April Showers reigns supreme over May Flowers for popularity; 6 to 1. To finish up the punchline however, Pilgrim trumps them both.

April is also the most popular first name that is also a month. There are 35K Aprils in our US database. Every month is represented except for February. Here they are in order of popularity:

April 35,488
June 29,405
August 8,382
May 5,990
January 327
July 220
March 192
September 186
December 65
November 29
October 18
February 0

While I’ve been featuring some of the slightly…different…names, we have plenty of information for those of you with more…traditional…names. So help yourself to Anderson, Bryant, Carter, Dirks, Engle, Farmer, Graf, Hill, Irving, Jeffries, Klein, you get the picture…