National short person day

what national day is it today

What national day is it today, asked here, is 22 December or it is not. From Thursday 3 September 2026 the next National Short Person Day is Tuesday 22 December 2026. 22 December 2025 has already gone. There is no federal table that answers “yes” on any other morning under this name.

The listing circulates on unofficial calendars and social posts. A verified founder, a statute, and a first-proclamation year are not sitting in the public record in a form this page can swear to. Treat the date as a recurring nickname, not as an act of Congress. Banks stay open. Schools that are already on winter break in late December are on break for Christmas and the calendar, not for this nickname.

People search the phrase in the same box as other “national day” jokes. That is how unofficial December dates live. It is also how they get confused with medical advocacy months that have a different job.

December 22 is not October, and not a diagnosis

October is used in the United States as Dwarfism Awareness Month, a separate advocacy span tied to short stature as a medical and civil-rights subject, including the work of groups such as Little People of America. National Short Person Day is a later, looser December nickname. Mixing them produces a joke where a serious month belongs, or a medical lecture where a light December post was meant. Keep the shelves apart.

Short Girl Appreciation Day is another unofficial neighbour, often parked on or next to the northern winter solstice. National Short Person Day is commonly listed the next calendar morning, 22 December. Two nicknames can sit on consecutive squares. They are still two nicknames. Neither one is a height clinic. Neither one sets a legal definition of “short.” Average height changes by place and by generation; this page will not invent a cut-off in inches.

Unofficial date in ordinary listings: 22 December. 2026 weekday: Tuesday 22 December. Not: Dwarfism Awareness Month (October). Not: a U.S. federal or bank closing. Not: a medical diagnosis or a workplace height rule.

Billy Barty's birthday, 25 October, is used by some little-people advocacy calendars in honour of the actor who helped found Little People of America. That October square is not 22 December. A Costa Rican bill once proposed 25 October as a national day for short people; that is another country's paperwork, not this U.S. nickname.

The door frame was not redesigned overnight. The joke can still be retired for one evening.

How to keep a nickname without making it a punchline

If you mark 22 December at all, mark it as courtesy: seats where people can see, a step that already exists, a photograph that does not crop someone out of the frame, a halt to the same three jokes. Do not demand that a stranger perform gratitude for being shorter than you. Do not use the day as cover for comments about bodies in a staff kitchen. An unofficial day has no enforcement arm. It only has manners.

Late December is already crowded: the solstice, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Eve sit on the same stretch of wall. National Short Person Day does not move Christmas. Christmas does not cancel the nickname. If your household is travelling on the 22nd, the unofficial day travels in the car or it waits. The numbered square stays put.

After Tuesday 22 December 2026 the next listing is Wednesday 22 December 2027. Leap years do not move 22 December. There is no observed-Monday rule, because there is no statute to observe.