What's in a name?

(38) And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.

As Rabbi Chanina said, "The names of the months they brought in their hands from Babylonia"

(1) This month shall be unto you the beginning of months ... And the reason for, "This month shall be unto you the beginning of months" is that Israel will count the first month, and from there will count all the months as second and third until the completion of the year with the twelfth month, so that this will be a reminder of a great miracle, for any time that the months will be mentioned the miracle will be remembered... Therefore, when the month of Nisan is called the first, and Tishrei the seventh, the meaning is that [Nisan is] the first [month] from redemption and [Tishrei is] the seventh ...
And our Sages have already mentioned this topic, and said that the names of the months came with us from Babylonia, for at the start we had no names. The reason for this is originally the order of [the months] was as a remembrance of the Exodus from Egypt, but when we left Babylonia and the verse was fulfilled (Jeremiah 16:14-15), "that it shall no more be said: 'As the LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt,' but: ‘As the LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north," we began to call the months by the names by which they were called in Babylonia, as a reminder that there we stood and from there the Lord drew us out...