Baby due Christmas Day, lots of people have said she should have a christmassy name ...

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Holly maybe

Is this a big no-no?

Maybe middle name?

DD3 born at christmas,middle name Mary,for various reasons,not just time of birth.
She has the names of Tudor Queens!

Epiphany for the 6th of Jan? I saw that in The Times Birth announcements once. I kinda like it, but it's too ecclesiastic for me.

I used to know someone who was born around the time of the other major Christian festival and her name is Easter. Her father was a minister and she went on to become one, too.

Easter, I like that. I prefer it to Esther. Very different obviously!!! Esther was a name I used to think of as a Jewish name. Now I don't know, wouldn't assume. Easter is unusual and pretty but not off the wall loop the loop wtf?

Nicole Kidman could use that for her 2nd child.

I have worked with a couple of Mexican guys called Jesus.

origins of Esther

sidetrack - Epiphany reminds me too much of Eponnee from Kath and Kim...

Never even seen that but now you say it, Eponee-Rae is coming in to my head.

that's the girl - the best episode was when they got Kylie Minogue to be Eponnee-Rae in a future-time scenario - brilliant!

"i'm going to lose weight the old fashioned way - cigarettes and laxatives". that is a K&K line I heard when I saw the programme for 2 minutes once. It must have been good.

How about Meredith ('Merry' for short)?

Congratulations on your pregnancy. As my mum said to me "Some people will do anything to get out of cooking Christmas dinner"
dd was born 25-12-07 and is gorgeous. We didnt want to call her anything themed but it was suggested lots in a joking way.

We named DD Natalie and apparently it means born on Christmas Day (she wasn't). Maybe one to consider as it is a different name to Natalia?

Congrats by the way!

no dont

please dont

she'll hate you

I just love the line in "Dinner Ladies" when Victoria Woods' mother says

"Oh yes, she was born on Christmas eve that's why we called her Brenda"

Just makes me giggle (that and the fact I love Julie Walters!)

My DD is Holly and Yes she was born near xmas!

natalie, tasha, mary, gabriella, maria, carol, christa, talya

eve?

donna?

cupid is the other reindeer name that could be used but it is a boys name.

Hi my dd2 is Hollie and was born close to christmas. we loved the name Holly and decided to use this (Hollie) spelling so she would not be tagged xmas baby is she did not want to be. She is 7 and loves her name and at xmas she usually gets cards with holly conffetti and she loves it !! we did also consider Noelle i think it is a lovely name and we also really liked Celeste. Most names are chosen to reflect something or other why not xmas its such a happy occasion. xxx

Please do not do this to your child. I have a Christmassy name for similar reasons and was teased unmercifully throughout my childhood, especially when we were reading a certain Dickens book at school....

Use a seasonal name as a middle name, by all means.

A couple of years ago DH wrote on my Christmas card, "Happy Christmas Carol" and forgot to put the all important comma in - he still chuckles about it now.