How popular is the baby name Christmas in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Christmas.

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Popularity of the baby name Christmas


Posts that mention the name Christmas

Babies named Christmas

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How many humans have been named Christmas throughout history?

It’s impossible to know for sure, but records reveal that thousands of babies across the globe have been given “Christmas” as either a first or middle name over the last few centuries. As you’d expect, the majority of them were born on, or close to, December 25th. Some examples…

  • Christmas Smyth, christened in England on Dec. 29, 1622
  • Christmass Elizabeth Cattermaul, christened in England on Dec. 28, 1766
  • Christmas Dagenet, born in the U.S. (Indiana) on Dec. 25, 1799
  • Christmas Griffith, christened in Wales on Dec. 25, 1824
  • Ebenezer Christmas Matthews, christened in England on Jan. 1, 1844
  • Walter Christmas Frost, christened in England on Dec. 25, 1854
  • Horace Christmas Liddle, born in Australia on Dec. 25, 1855
  • Christmas Evans Ward, born in the U.S. (South Carolina) on Dec. 25, 1859
  • Charles Christmas Lambert, born in Australia on Dec. 25, 1866
  • Casper Christmass Kline, born in the U.S. (New York) on Dec. 25, 1866
  • Terry Christmas Donnelly, born in Ireland on Dec. 15, 1879
  • Emma Christmas Thacker, christened in England on Jan. 15, 1880
  • Christmas James Jones, born in Wales on Dec. 25, 1888
  • Earl Christmas Elmendorf, born in the U.S. (Iowa) on Dec. 25, 1892
  • Christmas Roberts, born in England on Dec. 25, 1896
  • Arnold Christmas Flett, born in Canada on Dec. 25, 1900
  • Laverna Christmas Lambas, born in the U.S. (West Virginia) on Dec. 25, 1902
  • Mabel Christmas Tidgwell, born in Canada on Dec. 25, 1903
  • Christmas Higgins, born in the U.S. (Massachusetts) on Dec. 25, 1909
  • Christmas Kaailau Kelii, born in the U.S. (Hawaii) on Dec. 25, 1915
  • Johnny Christmas Mattingly, born in the U.S. (Texas) on Dec. 24, 1945

The parents of hundreds of these babies went even further by creating names out of Christmas-related phrases. For instance…

  • Christmas Eve Flournoy, born in the U.S. (Texas) on Dec. 24, 1871
  • Christmas Carol McCloud, born in the U.S. (California) on Dec. 25, 1909
  • Christmas Day Wagstaff, christened in England on Jan. 27, 1884
  • Christmas Gift Evans, born in the U.S. (New York) on Dec. 25, 1840
  • Merry Christmas Lloyd, born in the U.S. (Ohio) on Dec. 25, 1889

Two more examples are Merry Christmas Miller (born to Conrad and Nellie Miller, the founders of Alaska’s Santa Claus House, in 1961) and Mennonite writer Christmas Carol Kauffman (born in Indiana on Dec. 25, 1902).

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Image: Adapted from Bellagio Christmas tree by Bert Kaufmann under CC BY-SA 2.0.

Mexican state bans baby names like Rambo, Robocop

banned baby names in sonora, mexico

On February 10, the Civil Registration Act went into effect in the Mexican state of Sonora (which is right across the border from Arizona).

Article 46 of the act allows local authorities to reject baby names they deem derogatory, discriminatory, defamatory, libelous and meaningless, among other things.

The state also banned 61 specific baby names, and will likely ban more names in the future. All of the banned names came directly from Sonora’s birth registries (meaning that each has been used at least once already).

After doing some digging, I finally found the full list of banned names on a Mexican news site. Here it is:

  1. Aceituno
  2. Aguinaldo
  3. All Power
  4. Aniv de la Rev (short for “anniversary of the revolution”)
  5. Batman
  6. Beneficia (meaning “benefits”)
  7. Burger King
  8. Cacerolo
  9. Calzón (meaning “panties”)
  10. Caraciola
  11. Caralampio
  12. Cesárea
  13. Cheyenne
  14. Christmas Day
  15. Circuncisión (meaning “circumcision”)
  16. Culebro
  17. Delgadina (meaning “the skinny girl.” It’s from the Mexican folk song “La Delgadina.”)
  18. Diódoro
  19. Email
  20. Escroto (meaning “scrotum”)
  21. Espinaca (meaning “spinach”)
  22. Facebook
  23. Fulanita (meaning “so-and-so” or “what’s-her-name”)
  24. Gordonia
  25. Gorgonio
  26. Harry Potter
  27. Hermione
  28. Hitler
  29. Hurraca
  30. Iluminada
  31. Indio
  32. James Bond
  33. Lady Di
  34. Marciana (meaning “martian”)
  35. Masiosare (meaning “if one should dare,” roughly. It’s from the phrase mas si osare, which is part of the Mexican National Anthem.)
  36. Micheline
  37. Panuncio
  38. Patrocinio (meaning “patronage” or “sponsorship”)
  39. Petronilo
  40. Piritipio
  41. Pocahontas
  42. Pomponio
  43. Privado (meaning “private”)
  44. Procopio
  45. Rambo
  46. Robocop
  47. Rocky
  48. Rolling Stone
  49. Sobeida
  50. Sol de Sonora
  51. Sonora Querida
  52. Telésforo
  53. Terminator
  54. Tránsito (meaning “transit”)
  55. Tremebundo (meaning “terrifying” or “terrible”)
  56. Twitter
  57. Usnavy
  58. Verulo
  59. Virgen (meaning “virgin”)
  60. Yahoo
  61. Zoila Rosa

Some thoughts:

  • Facebook is the legal first name of at least 2 human beings at this point. Amazing.
  • Robocop, I must admit, has been on my “baby names I am dying to find in the wild” list for many years. At last, proof that it exists! Exciting stuff. (Haven’t yet come across any babies named Chucknorris, however. Fingers still crossed on that one.)
  • Hermione? I can see why Sonora would object to “Harry Potter” and “James Bond,” but Hermione by itself (as opposed to “Hermione Granger”) makes no sense. Hermione is a legitimate (and lovely) name that existed long before the Potter books.

What are your thoughts? And, which name on the list above shocked you the most?

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