Christmas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From a medieval nickname for someone born on or associated with Christmas Day
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɹɪsməs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Christmas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 37K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 59K
- CACanada≈1 in 61K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 345 (measured from records)
- 1 in 567 (inferred from the name graph)
5,599 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From a medieval nickname for someone born on or associated with Christmas Day.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Christmas, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Christmas counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 5,599 | 1 in 59K | 5.7K | Christmas | 345 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 37K | listed | Christmas | 142 |
| GH Ghana | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Christmas | 5 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 217K | — | Christmas | 23 |
| CA Canada | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Christmas | 98 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Christmas | 37 |
| DM Dominica | 131 | 1 in 567 | 131 | — | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 39 | 1 in 19K | 39 | — | 3 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 19 | 1 in 2.8K | 19 | — | 4 |
5,599 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Christmas is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, From Christ's mass; first attested Ralph Cristemesse 1185 RotDom (Essex).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Christmas Day, or who had some other particular associ¬ ation with that time of year, from OE Cristesmcesse mass, festival of Christ. Var.: Chrismas. Dims, (of 2 and 3): Choqu(en)et, Choqueneau. Pej. (of 2 and 3): Choquard.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
From the festival celebrating the birth of Christ (so called from Christ (see Christian) + mass festival). It is sometimes given to a boy born on Christmas Day. See also Noél and pNatalie.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A festival or holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ and incorporating various Christian, pre-Christian, pagan, and secular customs, which in Western Christianity is celebrated on December 25 (Christmas Day) in most places.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Christian holiday; island, Indian
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lee Christmasb. 1863USAmerican mercenary
- Ernest William Christmasb. 1863AUAustralian artist (1863-1918)
- William Whitney Christmasb. 1865USAmerican physician and aviator
- Eric Christmasb. 1916GBBritish actor (1916-2000)
- Keith Christmasb. 1946GBBritish singer-songwriter
- Jane Christmasb. 1954CACanadian writer
- Johnny Christmasb. 1982USlacrosse player
- Dionte Christmasb. 1986USAmerican basketball player (born 1986)
- Karima Christmasb. 1989USAmerican basketball player (born 1989)
- Rakeem Christmasb. 1991USAmerican basketball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.7K | #5,878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.6K | #6,122 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.2K | #6,082 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 131 | #107 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 39 | #586 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 19 | #163 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Christmas mean, and where does it come from?
- From a medieval nickname for someone born on or associated with Christmas Day. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Christmas?
- A machine transcription gives /kɹɪsməs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Christmas have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.6 thousand people named Christmas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled christmas.
- Where is Christmas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Christmas is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 567 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Christmas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,599 people named Christmas in 2010, about 1 in 59 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Christmas?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/christmasThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Christmas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.