If your baby is due in late December or thereabouts, how about a holiday-related baby name?

Christmas

Christmas is a commemoration of the birth of Jesus. Names that specifically mean "Christmas" include Natalia, Natalio, Noelle, Noel, and other variants of these names. Other names associated with this holiday range from Mary and Joseph to Nicholas and Rudolph.

Chanukah

Chanukah, also known as The Festival of Lights, is an eight-day festival that celebrates the re-kindling of the Second Temple menorah in Jerusalem. Names that mean "light" include Lucia, Lucina, Lucius, Lucy, Luz, Ori, Orit and Nur.

Kwanzaa

Kwanzaa was created in the late 1960s by Maulana Karenga (originally Ron Everett), an activist and academic who decided there should be a holiday honoring African-American heritage. There are seven days to Kwanzaa, and each is dedicated to a different principle -- three of those principles include Umoja (Swahili for "unity"), Imani ("faith") and Nia ("purpose").

Winter Solstice

This astronomical event (the longest night of the year) is celebrated in many cultures. Nature-centered names associated with this time of year include Winter, Holly and Ivy.

Festivus

...for the rest of us! This mock-holiday was invented by Reader's Digest writer and editor Daniel O'Keefe. Dan's scriptwriter son (also named Daniel) popularized the holiday by writing it into an episode of Seinfeld in the late 1990s. (Seinfeldian names include Jerry, Elaine, Cosmo, George, and George's father Frank.)