Babies named Thanksgiving

How many babies have been named Thanksgiving?

I’ve found several dozen in the records, and, as you’d expect, most of them were born on Thanksgiving Day. Here are a few examples:

• Thanksgiving “Givie” Phillips, born in Missouri on Thanksgiving (Nov. 26) in 1891
• Thanksgiving Dore, born in New York on Thanksgiving (Nov. 27) in 1902
• Mildred Thanksgiving Arendt, born in Arkansas on Thanksgiving (Nov. 30) in 1911
• Mary Louise Thanksgiving Brown Smith, born in Virginia on Thanksgiving (Nov. 27) in 1913
• Thanksgiving Henry Marshall, born in Georgia on Thanksgiving (Nov. 27) in 1919
• Thanksgiving Rojo, born in Texas on Thanksgiving (Nov. 27) in 1924
• Happy Thanksgiving Reynolds, born in Minnesota on Thanksgiving (Nov. 26) in 1970
  • Dr. Reynolds, now a family physician, has explained that she “was the child of hippies.”

The two most recent Thanksgivings I spotted were both born in the 1990s.

Sources:

• FamilySearch.org
• Table of dates – Thanksgiving (United States) – Wikipedia
• “Her name is Happy Thanksgiving, and she’s not the only one with a holiday handle.” Pioneer Press 23 Nov. 2013.

Image: Adapted from Male wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) strutting by Frank Schulenburg under CC BY-SA 4.0.

[Latest update: Nov. 2025]