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The following table gives the traditional English names for each month's full moon, the names given by Algonquian peoples in the northern and eastern United States, other common names, and Hindu.

Note that purnima or pornima is Sanskrit for full moon, which has also become the Malay word for full moon purnama.

Full moon days are sacred according to Buddhist tradition and called Uposatha in Pali.

For the names of the Uposatha days in Asian Buddhist countries see the article Uposatha.