History Main / DayOfTheWeekName

* The ''Literature/ThursdayNext'' books, of course. The eponymous heroine aside, her mother is Wednesday Next, her son is Friday Next, and her daughter is Tuesday Next.

* Literature/RobinsonCrusoe's native friend, Friday. Guess what day of the week they met? [[DontExplainTheJoke (Hint: It was Friday)]] And any parody thereof.
* The ''Literature/ThursdayNext'' books, of course. The eponymous heroine aside, her mother is Wednesday Next, her son is Friday Next, and her daughter is Tuesday Next.
* In ''Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife'', Gomez mentions that he and Charisse were going to name their daughter [[Series/TheAddamsFamily Wednesday]], but change their mind.
* ''Literature/TheManWhoWasThursday'' by Creator/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, with the most mysterious bordering on God-like of the bunch naturally being Sunday.]]

* From the Literature/{{Discworld}} novel ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'', Mr./Baron Saturday, which like many Pratchett jokes works on multiple levels once you get the whole context.
** ''VideoGame/DiscworldNoir'' had Mundy, a parody of Thursby from ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon|1941}}''.

* Mr. Monday from ''Literature/{{Stardust}}'', whose name ends up playing a role in the NoManOfWomanBorn ending.

* Creator/SheriSTepper's ''Raising the Stones'' had siblings named after days of the week, but they didn't know what the words meant - their parents took them from an old list in an obsolete language, and thought they'd make good names.

* In ''[[Literature/BlueAvenger Blue Avenger Cracks the Code]]'', one of Blue's childhood friends is named Tuesday.
* In the teen novel ''Adorable Sunday'', the protagonist explains that when she was born, her mother got the idea in her head that she should be called Sunday, on the grounds that she would grow up to be "somebody." (The plot focused on her brief career in modeling.)
--> '''Sunday's dad''': Besides, she was born today, and today is Thursday.
--> '''Sunday's mom''': I don't care. Sunday is a special day, and this is a special child. I can't help when she was born.
* The children's picture book ''Heckedy-Peg'' by Audrey and Don Wood features seven children named after the days of the week (the oldest is Monday, the youngest is little Sunday). Also notable for gorgeous illustrations and a dose of terrifying (the wicked witch turns the children into food and will eat them unless their mother can guess which food is which child).
* Brian Doyle's novel ''Spud Sweetgrass'' has a character named Mr. Friday, who, [[MeaningfulName appropriately enough]], runs a chain of chipwagons.
* ''Literature/WelkinWeasels: Gaslight Geezers'' shows Spindrick Sylver's anarchist group naming themselves after days of the week, which leads to an entertaining WhosOnFirst routine when he tries to ask "Saturday" for help and everyone assumes he's making an appointment for the next meeting.
* Guy Montag in Creator/RayBradbury's ''Literature/{{Fahrenheit 451}}'' (his surname is German for ''Monday'').
* ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' has a few characters named after weekdays. The final book had Friday Caliban, with it being implied that an earlier character's name was Monday (and her father) and an unseen woman named Thursday.
* The young adult novel ''The Snowbird'' features a character named July, who explains that he had so many older brothers and sisters that his mother was completely out of ideas as to what to name him, so his father told her to just name him after the month in which he was born. Humorously, he adds, "Good thing I wasn't born in April."

* Sharon Creech's ''Bloomability'' stars a protagonist named Domenica Santolina Doone, or "Dinnie" for short. "Domenica" is Italian for "Sunday," her mother naming her such because she was born on a Sunday and that made her blessed. She certainly gets a lot of opportunities.
* In Creator/AletheaKontis's ''Literature/{{Enchanted}}'', all seven girls are named for the day they were born, and fit the rhyme.
* In ''Literature/TenSixtySixAndAllThat'', before the conversion of England, the Saxons worshiped gods named Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
* One kids' book, entitled "A Chicken Called Saturday", a chicken has seven chicks and names them all after the days of the week (Sunday hatched first and Saturday last).

* The protagonists of the children's book ''A New Day'' by Brad Meltzer are colorful personifications of the days of the week. One of them, Sunday, quits being a day, forcing the other days to seek a replacement for her.

* In the [[StoryArc Alabasta arc]] of ''Manga/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]].

* [[Music/TheRollingStones Ruby Tuesday]].

* In ''Series/MyHero'', Thermoman's ClarkKenting name is George Sunday. TheOtherDarrin takes the SecretIdentity George ''Monday''.

* The TV film ''Snow White: The Fairest Of Them All'' has this for the Seven Dwarfs' names and uses the Nursery Rhyme (see Page quote above) to introduce them.

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** In the spin-off ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'', the family was the same, plus a second son, Prince Wednesday.
** King Friday also appears in several episodes of ''Series/DonkeyHodie''.
* One adaption of "Literature/SnowWhite" has the Seven Dwarfs characterised as this.

** In the spin-off ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'', the family was the same, plus a second son Prince Wednesday.

* Sort of applies to Creator/DCComics villain ComicBook/SolomonGrundy, who was (re)born on a Monday (and thus named after the famous nursery rhyme.)

* In ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'', the epithets of the Death Generals each start with a kanji that corresponds to a day of the week. The first four appear out of chronological sequence (fire, moon, wood, water), but the last three are in order (gold, earth, sun).

* ''Comicbook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'' member Mon-El (real name Lar Gand) was named that way because ComicBook/{{Superboy}} mistook him for his older brother (Lar had amnesia at the time) and they met on a Monday. (-El being Superboy's family surname.)

* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' spoof of ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'', "Rocket Squad":

* ''Literature/TheManWhoWasThursday'' by Creator/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.]]

* Mr. Wednesday from ''Literature/AmericanGods''. The name is actually {{foreshadowing}} that he is actually [[spoiler:Odin (Odin>Woden>Weden's-day)]]. In other words, [[spoiler:it's an InvertedTrope: The ''day'' is named after ''him'']]. He even acknowledges it when he first gives his name as Wednesday, claiming that "Today is my day." This almost spoils his identity for anyone who already knows the origin of the day's name.

* Sort of applies to Creator/DCComics villain SolomonGrundy, who was (re)born on a Monday (and thus named after the famous nursery rhyme.)

* In ''Manga/KurokoNoBasuke'', each of the main members of the Seirin High Basketball Club (except for Kuroko), have a kanji corresponding to a day of the week in their name. In order starting from Sunday: Hyuuga(日), Izuki(月), Kagami(火), Mitobe(水), Kiyoshi(木), Koganei(金), and Tsuchida(土).

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', the top ranking female members of Baroque Works were named after days of the week or holidays. Examples included Ms. Wednesday, Ms. Merry Christmas, and Ms. All Sunday.

* ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' has a few characters named after weekdays. The final book had Friday, with it being implied that an earlier character's name was Monday (and her father) and an unseen woman named Thursday.

* From the Literature/{{Discworld}} novel ''Discworld/WitchesAbroad'', Mr./Baron Saturday, which like many Pratchett jokes works on multiple levels once you get the whole context.

* One adaption of ''Literature/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'' has the Seven Dwarfs characterised as this.

* Day of the week names are VERY common in some parts of Africa. (Almost always as men's names.) This troper has personally met Several Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays; as well as more Mondays than you can shake a stick at. (I have also been told that Sunday, Saturday, and Thursday also get used. I just haven't met any.)
** 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 Friday, Kwaku for Wednesday, Kwame for Saturday, etc.\\