WEDNESDAY

Gender: F
Origin: English
Meaning: "Woden's day"

Name made famous by the macabre character Wednesday -- middle name: Friday -- Addams is taken from the name of the day dedicated to the Anglo-Saxon god Woden, who relates to Mercury. Cartoonist author Charles Addams was said to choose the name because "Wednesday's child is full of woe."

Wednesday is being discussed in our message boards: