For no particular reason other than "what they hey!?", let's dig out The Place Names of Edinburgh and see what festive or seasonal connections we might find.
I couldn't find anything under A, but under B we have Baltic Street in Leith. Not connected to the usual weather, or even trade with Scandinavia directly, more likely "The Baltic" was the London corn exchange (after a coffee house) and the name was associated with the trade 
There are many Bell names around Edinburgh, it was a common lowland surname. I've picked Bell's Brae that leads to the Water of Leith Village (what we now call Dean Village). The name most likely associated with millers of that name further upstream
The various "Bell's Closes" will go on file for Hogmanay.
A good reminder for when serving your guests root vegetables.
Cauldhame is a long gone farm to the south of Currie (Laurie's regional map is orientated south at the top, in case you're wondering)
Despite it only being as old as 1985, Harris doesn't have an answer to where this street in Granton Harbour got its name. My best guess is that it's an old fishing vessel name.
"The Christians" is an area to the south of Portobello named after a collection of streets of that name. "Christian" was Major Hugh Christian a former Provost of the Burgh and a popular character accounts. A path to the north also takes his name.
If you've not been a good boy or girl, you'll find Santa leaves this in your stocking. The "Coalie" is the local name for the former railway coal yard off Coburg Street in Leith.
As any parent knows, the worst gift you can ever receive for your small child is a drum. From the Gaelic "Druim" meaning literally a raised "back" of ground", it describes a ridge. See also The Drum, Drum Brae, etc.
One of the sometimes overlooked bodies of water in the city boundary. Also called the "diedman's pool", this more festive name is possibly from the Gaelic ailbhinn or British elfin, meaning a rocky precipice, of which there are many nearby
The suburb of Firrhill or Firr Hill is most likely a mid-19th century mapmaker's corruption of Fir Hill, in reference to the festive trees that grew there once upon a time
I tell you what's nicer than turkey is goose, an animal which has long given its name to a little corner of Causewayside, where it meets the Crosscauseway. The Dub referred to a pond and spring where geese were once raised.
Not a name that generally makes it on to maps, but well known and integral to transport interchange for years, the root of the name "Holy Corner" is pretty obvious when you count the churches
Some seasonal greenery from the Merchiston and Shandon colonies. The Edinburgh Co-operative Building Company often used trees and flowers in fancy names for their terraces of affordable, high-quality workers houses.
There are no Joseph place names in Edinburgh, but plenty for Mary. Maryfield was an old house at the head of Easter Road, giving its name to the current street and colony row in Abbeyhill. These fancy names after female relatives, were common. e.g. Annfield, Elizafield.
And seeing as we're at M, and that's half way through the alphabet, and I have presents to wrap, you'll have to tune in next time to catch N - Z.
So where did we get to? N I think.
N and O are washouts actually. But in P we get the Hogmanay-themed Pipes Close, where the original town water pipes entered the Castle Hill reservoir
This one is glorious, even though the meaning is long lost. Inevitable at this time of year, Punchinlaw (an old and long-lost farmstead to the northeast of Kirkliston). Later recorded in a less amusing form
Chocolate?
You have to go back to pre 1656, but the Kirk of North Leith was St. Nicholas, and it lent its name to the west gate of the town. It was swept away when Cromwell had the citadel built on the site, later replaced by St. Ninian's to south.
The festive-sounding Sleigh Drive and Sleigh Gardens took their name from William Sleigh, Lord Provost when the Lochend housing scheme was built in 1925
I was very nearly at the end of the book and worried that S was going to be the last entry, but an old street in Portobello turned up in style. Yool or Yoole set up the pottery on the site with his nephew, Rathbone, who gave his name to the once prosperous business
Time for a drink. Slàinte is Nollaig Cridheil!
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