Christmas Adam is used to name the day before Christmas Eve, often a day spent preparing for events with family and friends that occur on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. It is a way to help build anticipation for the cheer and excitement surrounding Christmas. It is hard to determine if the name has traveled outside of the United States since it is too colloquial to be used in most writing. However, if you do intend to use it as a greeting, pair it with the appropriate adjective (e.g., Merry Christmas Adam or Happy Christmas Adam).
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Origins of Christmas Adam
Even though there is no true source of the origin of the day’s naming, many people chime in across various online queries as a family tradition that has been spread through social media. The general consensus of its origin is that in anticipation of Christmas to come, people were looking for a name for the day before Christmas Eve. Some were calling the 23rd Christmas Eve Eve. Our local news still does.
Then someone (or more likely several someones) realized that in the Bible (Genesis 2:22), God created Adam before He created Eve. Henceforth, the day before Christmas Eve would be Christmas Adam.
The name is a play on words since Eve refers to a Biblical character in this context. In the traditional sense, eve means a day or period immediately before an event or occasion – hence, Christmas Eve, the night before Christmas.
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At our house, we celebrate Christmas Adam, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day. We like Christmas!!!
