Santa Claus

Quality:

Santa Claus - legendary figure said to deliver gifts to people on Christmas Eve. Article “Santa Claus” in Simple English Wikipedia has 64.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 31 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in Korean Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1814^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 192^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1443^rd most popular in all topics.

The 509^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1266^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2425^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Santa Claus” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2425^th place) and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Santa Claus”, its content was written by 169 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (192^nd place) and edited by 8099 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (509^th place).

The article is cited 104 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 13585 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3 in December 2008
• Global: #11 in December 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #50 in December 2008
• Global: #11 in December 2012

There are 52 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Korean (ko) 산타클로스		95.8046
2	Portuguese (pt) Papai Noel		94.5463
3	English (en) Santa Claus		93.4493
4	Hindi (hi) सांता क्लॉज़		90
5	French (fr) Père Noël		76.0981
6	Swedish (sv) Jultomten		72.8459
7	Spanish (es) Papá Noel		72.7907
8	German (de) Weihnachtsmann		65.8421
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Julenissen		65.6033
10	Romanian (ro) Moș Crăciun		65.4555

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Santa Claus		33 035 272
2	Spanish (es) Papá Noel		9 012 903
3	German (de) Weihnachtsmann		4 981 854
4	French (fr) Père Noël		4 758 110
5	Japanese (ja) サンタクロース		4 539 881
6	Italian (it) Babbo Natale		3 409 975
7	Portuguese (pt) Papai Noel		3 233 591
8	Polish (pl) Święty Mikołaj (kultura masowa)		2 387 482
9	Russian (ru) Санта-Клаус		2 289 285
10	Dutch (nl) Kerstman		1 259 699

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Santa Claus		31 860
2	Japanese (ja) サンタクロース		3 244
3	Spanish (es) Papá Noel		3 026
4	French (fr) Père Noël		1 973
5	German (de) Weihnachtsmann		1 585
6	Russian (ru) Санта-Клаус		1 580
7	Italian (it) Babbo Natale		1 405
8	Portuguese (pt) Papai Noel		1 056
9	Chinese (zh) 圣诞老人		963
10	Simple English (simple) Santa Claus		793

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Santa Claus		2 668
2	French (fr) Père Noël		592
3	German (de) Weihnachtsmann		477
4	Spanish (es) Papá Noel		477
5	Italian (it) Babbo Natale		469
6	Finnish (fi) Joulupukki		285
7	Portuguese (pt) Papai Noel		278
8	Dutch (nl) Kerstman		236
9	Swedish (sv) Jultomten		209
10	Japanese (ja) サンタクロース		205

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Papá Noel		4
2	Portuguese (pt) Papai Noel		3
3	English (en) Santa Claus		2
4	Dutch (nl) Kerstman		2
5	Turkish (tr) Santa Claus		2
6	Azerbaijani (az) Santa-Klaus		1
7	Basque (eu) Bizarzuri		1
8	French (fr) Père Noël		1
9	Hungarian (hu) Santa Claus		1
10	Korean (ko) 산타클로스		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information