Christmas

Girls' name

Christ festival

Christmas has been given to 160 babies in the U.S. since 1964. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1984, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Christmas, 2018

1 in 586,000

Christmas over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Christmas: meaning, origin, and history

Christ festival

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Christmas means

Christmas means “Christ festival”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Christmas is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɹɪs.məs/ for Christmas.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 160 girls were recorded with the name Christmas between 1964 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1984; its best national rank was #4,997 in 1984.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Christmas?

Christmas had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018: 1 in 586,000; 6 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only: 1 in 283,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 406,284 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Christmas sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Christmas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Christmass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Christmas was born before 1985 — so the typical Christmas is around 40 today.

Median birth year: 1985; About 40 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 47.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 19.4%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 160; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 47.5% of all recorded uses (76).

Is Christmas rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1984 (14)
Years since peak: 41; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 32.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,997; 1984

Spellings of Christmas

Christmas is not the most common spelling — Christa is, with 50.8% against Christmas's 0.25%.

Christa50.8%32,843
Christian30.7%19,875
Christal15.0%9,710
Christan2.1%1,366
Christia1.1%737
Christmas0.25%160

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Christmas by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,997; 1984
Peak year: 1984; 14 that year
First recorded: 1964
Last recorded: 2018
All-time count: 160
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Christmas

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Christmas

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Venessa Linsey Afton Tanesha Kristan Matthew Tera Santana

For a brother

Marques Brenton Jerrod Whitney Shea Jamaal Darnell Derik

Explore around Christmas

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