History Main / DayOfTheWeekName

** In particular, there are names that you would usually name children if they were born on a certain day of the week. For example, Kofi for Thursday, Kwaku for Wednesday, etc.

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* The Akutare brothers in ''FanFic/PrettyCurePerfumePreppy'', Getsuyo, Kayo and Suiyo, are named after the Japanese words for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (Getsuyoubi, Kayoubi and Suiyoubi).

* A short story in the {{Hellboy}} book 'Oddest Jobs' discusses this. Hellboy, Liz, and another B.P.R.D. worker try to think of someone named Thursday, and Hellboy ends up telling a story of a man with the last name Thursday. [[spoiler:Although within the story, it shows that the man comes from a race of Thursday Men, who are trying to prevent the Wednesday Men from coming through to our dimension.]]

* The eponymous heroine of ''Friday'' by RobertAHeinlein.

* The main character of ''RogueTrooper'' is named Friday.

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* The main character of ''RogueTrooper'' is named Friday.
* In the Disney comics by Carl Banks, Daisy Duck's nieces are April, May, and June.

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* ''Cathouse Thursday''
* The preacher in ThereWillBeBlood is named Eli Sunday.

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* Friday Monday from ''{{Madlax}}''.
* In the [[StoryArc Alabasta arc]] of ''OnePiece'', the Baroque Works organization gives days of the week as {{Code Name}}s to its high-ranking female agents. (The very top female agents above them get codenamed after specific holidays.) Like many other names in ''One Piece'', there doesn't seem to be any [[MeaningfulName significance]] besides [[RuleOfCool sounding cool]].
* In ''Bishoujo Senshi SailorMoon'', the Inners all have last names that contain the kanji used for the days of the week: Usagi Tsukino (tsuki = moon = Monday), Ami Mizuno (mizu = water = Wednesday), Rei Hino (hi = fire = Tuesday), Makoto Kino (ki = tree = Thursday), Minako Aino (ai = gold = Friday). Sailor Saturn uses the kanji for earth (to) for Saturday.
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* Two from ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'', Wednesday Ryan and Wednesday Garci. Given this is a KillEmAll [=RP=], full of woe is quite apt.
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* The Akutare brothers in ''FanFic/PrettyCurePerfumePreppy'', Getsuyo, Kayo and Suiyo, are named after the Japanese words for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (Getsuyoubi, Kayoubi and Suiyoubi).
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This is easier to remember in Latinate languages. The days of the week in French, for example, are Lundi, Mardi, Mercredi, Jeudi, Vendredi, Samedi and Dimanche.

See also TemporalThemeNaming.

* Wednesday Thursday Addams, of ''TheAddamsFamily'', had the week's scariest name as her own.

Okay, LetsPlay: What is, you say, a good way, to this day, to give away a MeaningfulName? A weekday!

* Domingo Montoya from ''ThePrincessBride''. Domingo is Spanish for [[ThisIsmyNameOnForeign Sunday]]

* ''The Man Who Was Thursday'' by GKChesterton, though there the days of the week are just the code names for the seven leaders of a secret anarchist society and not their actual names. [[spoiler: Rather than gods or nursery rhymes, the names are symbolic of the (slightly adjusted) Creation Week.]]

* A short story in the {{Hellboy}} book 'Oddest Jobs' discusses this. Hellboy, Liz, and another B.P.R.D. worker try to think of someone named Thursday, and Hellboy ends up telling a story of a man with the last name Thursday. [[Spoiler:Although within the story, it shows that the man comes from a race of Thursday Men, who are trying to prevent the Wednesday Men from coming through to our dimension.]]

* A short story in the ''Hellboy'' book 'Oddest Jobs' discusses this. Hellboy, Liz, and another B.P.R.D. worker try to think of someone named Thursday, and Hellboy ends up telling a story of a man with the last name Thursday. [Spoiler]Although within the story, it shows that the man comes from a race of Thursday Men, who are trying to prevent the Wednesday Men from coming through to our dimension.[/spoiler]

* One adaption of {{SnowWhite}} has the Seven Dwarves characterised as this.

* In the [[StoryArc Alabasta arc]] of ''OnePiece'', the Baroque Works organization gives days of the week as {{CodeName}}s to its high-ranking female agents. (The very top female agents above them get codenamed after specific holidays.) Like many other names in ''One Piece'', there doesn't seem to be any [[MeaningfulName significance]] besides [[RuleOfCool sounding cool]].

* The highest-ranking underlings of Tauzant in the [[NinpuuSentaiHurricanger Jakanja]] have such names: Manmaruba = Monday, Chuuzubo = Tuesday ("Chu-zu-de-i"), Wendinu = Wednesday, Sargain = Thursday ("Sa-zu-de-i"), Furabijo = Friday (Fu-ra-i-de-i), Satorakura = Saturday, Sandaru = Sunday

* [[TheAddamsFamily Wedensday Addams]]

* There's an editorial cartoonist named August Pollak.