Where is New Year's called "Hogmanay"?

New Year’s is called Hogmanay in Scotland.

More precisely, Hogmanay is the Scots word for New Year’s Eve, the final day of the year, and it also refers to the celebrations surrounding the Scottish New Year. Festivities commonly include parties, visiting friends and neighbors, gift-giving, fireworks, music, and the first-footing tradition, in which the first person to enter a home after midnight is believed to influence the household’s luck.

The name has a long and uncertain history. Its first appearance in Scots records came in 1604 at Elgin, while related forms appear in northern English records even earlier. Scholars have proposed French, Norse, Gaelic, and Scots origins, but no single etymology is universally accepted.

Hogmanay is sometimes confused with New Year’s Day, but the word traditionally identifies December 31 and its midnight celebrations. The festivities may continue into January 1 and January 2, both of which have particular importance in Scotland. Robert Burns’s “Auld Lang Syne,” written in 1788 from older Scottish material, is strongly associated with the midnight celebration.