Christmas Names

Time was that Carol was a smash hit. Back then, it was chosen particularly often during the Christmas season, obviously because of the association with Christmas carols. While that's a rather cheesy way to tip your hat to the season, there are plenty of better options, such as names that mean Christmas, and names connected with Christmas. Names that mean Christmas:

Natalie/Natalia - popular names with a well-known--but not too well-known Christmas meaning

Noel - For a girl, pronounced Noelle and sometimes spelled that way; for a boy, pronounced NO-uhl

There are also Christmas cultural icons to consider:

Nicholas

Norman (Rockwell)

Irving (Berlin)

George (Bailey)

We all have things we love most about Christmas, and some of them have quite lovely names related to them:

Holly/Hollis (holly)

Celyn (holly)

Oren (pine)

Douglas (like the fir)

Nousha (sweet, like cookies)

Miela (sweet)

Edur (snow)

Eira/Eirwen (snow)

Nevada (snow)

You could acknowledge your real favorite thing about Christmas and choose a name that means 'gift':

Darina

Cassandra

Dorothea

Jesse

Matthew

Theodore

Or, you can just go for Mary or Joseph. Merry Christmas!