Proper noun

(Junes)

The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar, following May and preceding July. Abbreviation: Jun' or '

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, title=[http://openlibrary.org/works/OL5535161W Mr. Pratt's Patients], chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June , the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}

for a girl born in June, used since the end of the 19th century.

* 2002 (Kate Atkinson), Not the End of the World , Doubleday, ISBN 0385604726, page 29:

*:Her parents were old, really old. That's why they'd given her such an old-fashioned name. June', because she was born in June. If she'd been born in November would they have called her November? '''June''' was a name for women in sitcoms and soap operas, the name of women who knit with synthetic wool and follow recipes that use cornflakes, not the name of a thirty-year-old with a ring in her nose ('Oh, ' June' .)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)

, a feminine form of John.

* ~1595 William Shakespeare: King John: Act I, Scene I :

Well, now I can make any Joan a lady.

* 1979 Margaret Atwood: Lady Oracle, p.336 :

Maybe my mother didn't name me after Joan' Crawford after all, I thought; she just told me that to cover up. She named me after ' Joan of Arc, didn't she know what happened to women like that?