Autumn

Autumn is a feminine given name derived from the Latin word autumnus, meaning "fall" or "autumn".
The name has been in use in the United States since at least the 1970s and has been ranked among the top 100 names for girls there for the past 10 years. It was the 81st most popular name for girls born in the United States in 2009. It was the 80th most popular name for girls born in British Columbia, Canada in 2008.

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Late 14c., autumpne (modern form from 16c.), from Old French autumpne, automne (13c.), from Latin autumnus (also auctumnus, perhaps influenced by auctus "increase"), which is of unknown origin. Perhaps from Etruscan, but Tucker suggests a meaning "drying-up season" and a root in *auq- (which would suggest the form in -c- was the original) and compares archaic English sere-month "August." Harvest (n.) was the English name for the season until autumn began to displace it 16c. Astronomically, from the descending equinox to the winter solstice; in Britain, the season is popularly August through October; in U.S., September through November. Compare Italian autunno, Spanish otoño, Portuguese outono, all from the Latin word. Autumn's names across the Indo-European languages leave no evidence that there ever was a common word for it as there likely was for the other three seasons. Many "autumn" words mean "end, end of summer," or "harvest." Compare Greek phthinoporon "waning of summer;" Lithuanian ruduo "autumn," from rudas "reddish," in reference to leaves; Old Irish fogamar, literally "under-winter."

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Born in the fall; The fall season.

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Autumn Reeser	1980	American actress
2	Autumn Phillips	1978	Granddaughter-in-law of Elizabeth II
3	Emilie Autumn	1979	American musician
4	Autumn Jackson	1974	American extorionist
5	Autumn Hurlbert	1980	American actress and singer
6	Autumn de Forest	2001	American painter
7	Autumn de Wilde	1970	American photographer
8	Autumn Burke	1973	Member of the California State Assembly
9	Autumn Rowe	1998	American singer-songwriter
10	Autumn Haze	1976	American pornographic actress
11	Autumn Durald		American cinematographer
12	Autumn Simunek
13	Autumn Sandeen		American activist
14	Autumn Federici
15	Autumn Rademacher	1975	Basketball player and coach
16	Autumn Sonnichsen		American photographer
17	Autumn Mills	1988	Canadian ice hockey player
18	Violeta Autumn	1930