🎅️ Santa Claus emoji

The Santa Claus emoji means Christmas, gift-giving, and holiday cheer. It is used for Santa, Christmas Eve, presents, festive plans, and winter celebrations.

It can also suggest generosity, surprise gifts, or someone playing Santa for others. Related emojis include 🤶 Mrs claus, 🧑‍🎄 Mx claus, 🎁 Wrapped gift, 🎄 Christmas tree, and ☃️ Snowman.

Could also be called Santa Claus, Santa, Father Christmas or Saint Nick emoji.

Other meanings

Santa, Father Christmas, Christmas, presents, holiday season, festive cheer

Example Usage

The kids left cookies out for Santa 🎅

Variants

Related emoji

Christmas emojis

• 🤶️ Mrs. Claus
• 🧑‍🎄 Mx claus
• 🎄️ Christmas tree
• 🔔️ Bell

Christmas Emoji emojis

• ⭐️ Star
• 🎁️ Wrapped gift
• ❄️ Snowflake
• 🦌️ Deer

Ugly Sweater Day Emoji emojis

• 🧶️ Yarn
• 🧣️ Scarf
• ☃️ Snowman
• 🧥️ Coat

Visual description

On iOS, Santa has a round smiling face, white beard, red hat, and red suit collar. The hat has white trim and a white pom-pom.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.