Baby Name: 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]