Given name & surname
Christmas
“born during the festival of Christ”
Christmas is used as a given name and a surname. Interpretations include “born during the festival of Christ Chrisantha CCresanne Cengser of thceeple” (English) and “born during the festival of Christ” (English). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Interpretations include “born during the festival of Christ Chrisantha CCresanne Cengser of thceeple” (English) and “born during the festival of Christ” (English). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
Possibly from Latin Chrīstus, from Ancient Greek Χρῑστός, from Ancient Greek χρῑστός, built from English Christ + mas.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1964. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Christmas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 160
- 0 boys · 160 girls
- Most popular year
- 1984
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 1984. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 369 as a first name in 2020; 5,655 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Christmas’s family of names
Christmas has a related form in Chrysann. Christmas has a related form in Crisann. Christmas has a related form in Crisanne.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
See also 3
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Christmas
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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