Christmas Popularity by Year
Follow Christmas across every available national year. Rankings and birth counts remain separated by the source dataset’s girl and boy categories.
Christmas birth-count history
The chart samples long histories for faster loading. The complete table below includes every recorded year.
Complete year-by-year record
| Year | Category | Births | Rank | Change from previous recorded year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Girls | 6 | #13,793 | Up 689 places |
| 2015 | Girls | 6 | #14,482 | Up 2,065 places |
| 2013 | Girls | 5 | #16,547 | Down 7,530 places |
| 1997 | Girls | 9 | #9,017 | Up 4,369 places |
| 1995 | Girls | 5 | #13,386 | Up 56 places |
| 1993 | Girls | 5 | #13,442 | Down 125 places |
| 1992 | Girls | 5 | #13,317 | Down 1,808 places |
| 1991 | Girls | 6 | #11,509 | Down 3,629 places |
| 1990 | Girls | 10 | #7,880 | Down 769 places |
| 1988 | Girls | 10 | #7,111 | Up 4,214 places |
| 1987 | Girls | 5 | #11,325 | Down 413 places |
| 1986 | Girls | 5 | #10,912 | Down 3,349 places |
| 1985 | Girls | 8 | #7,563 | Down 2,597 places |
| 1984 | Girls | 14 | #4,966 | Up 2,346 places |
| 1983 | Girls | 8 | #7,312 | Down 424 places |
| 1982 | Girls | 9 | #6,888 | Up 2,222 places |
| 1981 | Girls | 6 | #9,110 | Down 3,198 places |
| 1980 | Girls | 11 | #5,912 | Down 485 places |
| 1979 | Girls | 12 | #5,427 | Up 1,137 places |
| 1966 | Girls | 5 | #6,564 | Down 25 places |
| 1965 | Girls | 5 | #6,539 | Up 228 places |
| 1964 | Girls | 5 | #6,767 | — |