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Help[Opinions] Re: Why don't people name their kids Spring?
in reply to a message by Wis
Spring just doesn't sound as much like a typical given name to English speakers as the other three seasons. One syllable names are mostly out of style, especially for girls, at the moment, and it is unusual to find a given name that ends in -ing. The only names that rhyme with Spring that I have seen used by native born Americans are King and Ring, and they are both masculine, while season names are now primarily given to girls. (There were 28 girls named Cing and 7 named Ling in the USA in 2204, but they are almost surely daughters of immigrants from China.)
Spring does exist as a girl's name in the USA. There were 20 born in 2024, and Baby Boomers like myself will often remember Spring Byington (1886-1971), who was an actress who starred in the TV series "December Bride" (1954-1959). However, she was between 68 and 73 during the run of that series and the comic premise of the show was to have her as an older widow always on the lookout for a new husband. So most of us who are elderly Americans today think of an elderly woman when we hear the name Spring. (By the way, when I researched season names in the US census, Spring Byington was actually the earliest example of a woman named Spring I could find. She did not change her name when she became an actress. Her birth name was Spring Dell Byington.)
I am sure that if some major celebrity names a daughter Spring, or some hit movie or TV show comes up with a beautiful young woman or cute little girl character called Spring, it would increase enough to get into the top 1000. But it would be a while for tastes in name sounds to change enough for it to make it into the top 50, I think.
Spring does exist as a girl's name in the USA. There were 20 born in 2024, and Baby Boomers like myself will often remember Spring Byington (1886-1971), who was an actress who starred in the TV series "December Bride" (1954-1959). However, she was between 68 and 73 during the run of that series and the comic premise of the show was to have her as an older widow always on the lookout for a new husband. So most of us who are elderly Americans today think of an elderly woman when we hear the name Spring. (By the way, when I researched season names in the US census, Spring Byington was actually the earliest example of a woman named Spring I could find. She did not change her name when she became an actress. Her birth name was Spring Dell Byington.)
I am sure that if some major celebrity names a daughter Spring, or some hit movie or TV show comes up with a beautiful young woman or cute little girl character called Spring, it would increase enough to get into the top 1000. But it would be a while for tastes in name sounds to change enough for it to make it into the top 50, I think.
This message was edited 5/23/2025, 12:35 PM
