Friday
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About Friday
Friday became famous as a name via the sidekick character in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, morphing into a generic term for an all-around professional assistant, as in "girl Friday." As a word for the day of the week, Friday is associated with the old English goddess Frigg and the Roman goddess Venus, though the character makes Friday more of a male name.
Friday is also given to girls.
Pronounced FRY-day.
As of October 2026, Friday ranked #12681 in US births in 2022 SSA, peaked at #6430 in 1974.
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Friday on lists
Famous Fridays
- Harry Friday Baker (b. 2001)Boy
son of actors Simon Baker and Rebecca Rigg
- Marian "Friday Brown" StockleyGirl
English singer and songwriter
- Nancy Colbert FridayGirl
American author
Friday in pop culture
- FridayBoy
character in Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"
- FridayBoy
character in the 2000 AD comics
- FridayBoy
artificial intelligence in Marvel Comics.
- FridayBoy
dog in 2009 film "Hotel for Dogs"
- Friday CalibanBoy
female character in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Friday aka Jennifer K. Larson aka ZaranaBoy
female character in the GI Joe series
- Joe FridayBoy
character on TV's "Dragnet"
- Wednesday Friday AddamsBoy
female character in The Addams Family series
- "Friday's child is loving and givingBoy
" nursery rhyme
- King Friday XIIIBoy
Puppet from “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood”
- F.R.I.D.A.Y.Girl
Tony Stark’s artificial intelligence assistant in the Marvel Comics and the MCU.