How popular is the baby name Halloween 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 Halloween.

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Popularity of the baby name Halloween


Posts that mention the name Halloween

Babies named Thanksgiving

wild turkey

We’ve talked about people named Easter, Fourth (of July), Halloween, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year…what about Thanksgiving?

I mean, we’ve already met Dr. Happy Thanksgiving, but are there more?

Yes, at least a few dozen more. As you’d expect, nearly all were born in late November. Here are three examples:

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

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

More babies named Halloween

Jack-o-lantern

Dozens of U.S. babies have been named Halloween over the years. We’ve already talked about Halloween Putman. Who are some of the others?

The earliest example I know of is Halloween Hovey. She was 8 months old and living in Michigan at the time of the 1870 census. (North America has only been celebrating Halloween since the mid-1800s, btw.)

The latest example I know of is Halloween Starks. She was born in Florida on Oct. 3, 1952.

Probably my favorite example is Halloween Baggs, whose name reminds me of bags of candy. :) He was 9 and living in Indiana at the time of the 1920 census.

Also memorable is Marigold Halloween Pearlie Cummings. She was born in Hawaii on Oct. 31, 1922.

I even found two people who spelled Halloween with the apostrophe: Henry Hallowe’en Varner (boy, born in Massachusetts on Oct. 31, 1904) and Tommie Hallowe’en Farmer (girl, born in Texas on Oct. 31, 1921)

Have you ever met anyone named Halloween? (If so, did they like their name?)

Image: Adapted from 2017 Halloween 6 by anoldent under CC BY-SA 2.0.

Baby born on Halloween, named Halloween

Jack-o-lantern

First a spring holiday name, now a fall holiday name…

I saw an article recently about an Oklahoma woman born on Oct. 31, 1924, and named Halloween.

As a child, Halloween Putman (née Williams) was teased about her unusual name:

She was called “Valentine” or “Holiday,” but she continued to go by Halloween until high school, when she began to use her middle name.

As an adult, though, she took pride in it. She got a kick out of “showing her driver’s license and seeing people’s reaction,” for instance.

Now, you’d think that Halloween would be a rare first name — rarer than Pascaline, right? But when I checked the Social Security Death Index (SSDI), I was surprised to find 36 (!) people named Halloween and just 26 named Pascaline. Even more surprising? Some of these Halloweens were neither born nor conceived anywhere near October 31st. Very curious…

Source: Westbrook, Leigh Ann. “Local lady born to celebrate October treat day.” Durant Daily Democrat 31 Oct. 2002: 1A+.

Image: Adapted from 2017 Halloween 6 by anoldent under CC BY-SA 2.0.

English family with 13 children

kinderfest

Sara Foss and Stephen Smith of Derby, England, have 13 children (and are expecting their 14th in April). The names of the 13 they currently have are…

  1. Patrick, 21 years old
    • his name comes from Sara’s grandmother’s surname
  2. Stephen, 13
    • named after his father
  3. Malachai, 12
    • named after a character in the horror movie Children Of The Corn
  4. Peppermint, 11
    • name inspired by Sara’s pregnancy cravings
  5. Echo, 10
    • named after “a group of eco-campaigners who Stephen met during a job at work”
  6. Eli, 9
    • named after another character in Children Of The Corn
  7. Rogue, 8
    • named after a character in the movie X-Men
  8. Frodo, 6
    • named after a hobbit in The Lord of the Rings
  9. Morpheus, 5
    • named after a character in the movie The Matrix
  10. Artemis, 4
    • named after children’s book character Artemis Fowl
  11. Blackbird, 3
    • named after “a gathering of blackbirds which flew onto Sara’s lawn”
  12. Baudelaire, 23 months
    • named after the Baudelaire orphans in the movie Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events
  13. Voorhees, 10 months

Voorhees — because he was the 13th baby — was named after Jason Voorhees, the serial killer in the horror movie Friday the 13th. His middle name? Halloween.

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Image: Ein Kinderfest (1868) by Ludwig Knaus

[Latest update: May 2024]