Names of the Full Moon

	Colonial American	Chinese	American Indian (Cherokee)	American Indian (Choctaw)	American Indian (Dakota Sioux)	Celtic	English Medieval	Neo Pagan	New Guinea
January	Winter	Holiday	Cold	Cooking	Terrible	Quiet Moon	Wolf	Ice
February	Trapper's	Budding	Bony	Little Famine	Racoon, When Trees Pop	Ice	Storm	Snow	Rainbow Fish
March	Fish	Sleepy	Windy	Big Famine	Sore Eyes from Bright Snow	Winds	Chaste	Death	Parrotfish
April	Planter's	Peony	Flower	Wildcat	Geese Return in Scattered Formation	Growing	Seed	Awakening	Palolo Worm
May	Milk	Dragon	Planting	Panther	Leaves are Green, Time to Plant	Bright	Hare	Grass
June	Rose	Lotus	Green Corn	Windy	June Berries are Ripe	Horses	Dyan	Planting	Flying Fish
July	Summer	Hungry Ghost	Ripe Corn	Crane	Middle Summer	Claiming	Mead	Rose	Black Trevally
August	Dog Day's	Harvest	Fruit	Women's	All Things Ripen	Dispute	Corn	Lightening	Open Sea
September	Harvest	Chrysanthemum	Nut	Mulberry	Calves Grow Hair	Singing	Barley	Harvest
October	Hunter's	Kindly	Harvest	Blackberry	Quilting and Beading	Harvest	Blood	Blood	Tiger Shark
November	Beaver	White	Trading	Sassafras	Horns are Broken Off	Dark	Snow	Tree	Rain and Wind
December	Christmas	Bitter	Snow	Peach	Twelfth Moon	Cold	Oak	Long Night
Following source: J. Hugh Pruett's April, 1946, article in Sky and Telescope magazine entitled "Once in A Blue Moon".  The second full moon in a month was called Blue Moon. Blue Moons between 2008 and 2011 All dates and times are given in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Year  Month        First Full Moon   Blue Moon 2009  December  2nd at 07:29      31st at 19:11 The Blue Moon dates provided by http://www.obliquity.com.