Since the Declaration of Independence occurred on the fourth of July, I think a person could go either way on this. I have used both terms.

It seems the 4th of July is more commonplace than Independence Day. Maybe people wanted to forget about that godawful movie, 'Independence Day.'

Pretty forthright.We got rid of British Imperialism,now it's time to get rid of our indiginous Imperialists!

I propose a new name for this day... "Roland Emmerich destroys the world" Day - think it will catch on? Joking aside, I think calling Independence Day the fourth of July isn't really an alternative name, it's just specifying a property of the holiday... i.e. it's date.

I don't ever hear 25th of Christmas or 2nd of February when discussing Holidays, but for some reason Independence Day gets this distinction. I don't have a problem with it.

As long as people know what the meaning of 4th of july is I dont think calling it 4th of July sounds so bad. Actually I rarely hear people ever use the term Independence Day. Maybe Independence Day was used more commonly back in the day (18-1900's), I don't know?

might as well say good since this is what we call it in our family.both sound fine.

Calling it the 4th of July is probably more common that referring to it as Independence Day, and I suppose it works well enough. But one has to wonder why it's the only major holiday commonly referred to by it's date. No one refers to Christmas as simply the 25th of December, or Halloween as the 31st of October.