Christmas

Christmas is the 5,878th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,655 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 52,900.

By the numbers

People: 5,655
Rank: 5,878th
How common: 1 in 52,900
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

The is derived from Middle English Cristemasse, Criste-mas (“Christmas Day; season of Christmas; Christmas festivities”), from Old English Cristes mæsse (“Christmas”), from Crist (“Christ”) + -es + mæsse (“a mass (celebration of the Eucharist)”). The English word is analysable as. Cognate with stq Kristmisse, West Frisian Krystmis, Dutch Kerstmis, nds-de Karstmis.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Christmas described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 50.8%
Black, not Hispanic 38.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Christmas

Rakeem Christmas (born 1991)American basketball player
Eric Christmas (1916–2000)British actor

People named Christmas with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Christmas

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.