Santa Claus in Over 180 Languages from Around the World

by Mark Baker • 2m to read •
Every Christmas, people around the world celebrate the holiday in different ways. For some, it's all about spending time with family and friends. For others, it's a time to reflect on the year that has passed and make resolutions for the new one. And for still others, it's a time to commemorate religious or cultural traditions. But no matter how you celebrate, one thing is always synonymous with Christmas: Santa Claus! Here are just a few of the many translations of Santa Claus from around the world!
Santa Claus in Over 180 Languages from Around the World

Happy holidays, everyone! No matter what language you speak, Christmas is a time of celebration and giving. And what better way to spread Christmas cheer than by learning how Santa is called in other languages? Jolly old Santa Claus has quite the following around the world – here's a list of Santa's names in over 180 different languages!





Santa Claus in over 180 Languages

Language Translation
Afrikaans Vader Kersfees
Albanian Babagjyshi
Amharic የገና አባት
Arabic سانتا كلوز
Armenian Ձմեռ Պապ
Azerbaijani Şaxta baba
Basque Bizarzuri
Belarusian Санта Клаўс
Bengali সান্তা ক্লজ
Bosnian djed mraz
Bulgarian Дядо Коледа
Burmese ဆန်တာကလော့စ်
Catalan, Valencian Pare Noél
Chichewa, Chewa, Nyanja Santa kilausi
Chinese 圣诞老人
Corsican Santa Claus
Croatian Djed Mraz
Czech Ježíšek
Danish julemanden
Dutch Sinterklaas
English Santa Claus
Esperanto Santa Claus
Estonian jõuluvana
Finnish Joulupukki
French père Noël
Western Frisian Santa Claus
Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic bodach na Nollaig
Galician Papá Noel
Georgian სანტა კლაუსი
German Weihnachtsmann
Greek, Modern Άγιος Βασίλης
Gujarati સાન્તા ક્લોસ
Haitian, Haitian Creole Tonton Nwèl
Hausa Santa Claus
Hebrew סנטה קלאוס
Hindi सांता क्लॉज़
Hungarian Mikulás
Icelandic jólasveinn
Igbo Fada ekeresimesi
Indonesian Sinterklas
Irish Daidí na Nollag
Italian Babbo Natale
Japanese サンタクロース
Javanese Santa Claus
Kannada ಸಾಂಟಾ ಕ್ಲಾಸ್
Kazakh Аяз ата
Central Khmer Santa Claus
Kinyarwanda Santa Claus
Kirghiz, Kyrgyz Санта Клаус
Korean 산타 클로스
Kurdish Santa Claus
Lao Santa Claus
Latin Santa clause
Latvian Ziemassvētku vecītis
Lithuanian Kalėdų Senelis
Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch Kleeschen
Macedonian Дедо Мраз
Malagasy Dadabe Noely
Malay Santa Claus
Malayalam സാന്താ ക്ലോസ്സ്
Maltese Santa Claus
Maori Santa Claus
Marathi सांता क्लॉज
Mongolian Санта клаус
Nepali सान्टा क्लाउज
Norwegian julenissen
Norwegian Bokmål julenissen
Oriya ସାଣ୍ଟା କ୍ଲଜ୍ |
Pashto, Pushto سانته کلاوز
Persian بابا نوئل
Polish Święty Mikołaj
Portuguese Papai Noel
Punjabi, Panjabi ਸੈਂਟਾ ਕਲੌਸ
Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan Moș Crăciun
Russian Санта Клаус
Samoan Santa Claus
Serbian деда Мраз
Shona Santa Claus
Sindhi سانتا کلاز
Sinhala, Sinhalese නත්තල් සීය
Slovak Mikuláš
Slovenian Božiček
Somali Santa Claus
Southern Sotho ntate keresemese
Spanish, Castilian Papá Noel
Sundanese Santa Klaus
Swahili Santa Claus
Swedish jultomten
Tagalog Santa Claus
Tajik Бобои Барфӣ
Tamil சாண்டா கிளாஸ்
Tatar Кыш Бабай
Telugu శాంతా క్లాజు
Thai ซานตาคลอส
Turkish Noel Baba
Turkmen Santa Klaws
Uighur, Uyghur سانتا كلاۋۇس
Ukrainian Санта Клаус
Urdu سانتا کلاز
Uzbek qor bobo
Vietnamese Ông già Noen
Welsh Siôn Corn
Xhosa usanta Claus
Yiddish סאַנטאַ קלאַוס
Yoruba santa claus
Zulu Santa Claus

 

Merry Christmas! We hope you’ve enjoyed our look at Santa Claus in over 180 languages from around the world. It’s been a lot of fun putting this together for you and we hope you find it useful as you celebrate the holiday season. From all of us here at Love to Sing, we wish you a very happy and safe Christmas! Don't forget to have a read of our Merry Christmas is over 100 languages from around the world blog post!

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