IF you’ve ever had a Yuletide romance, only for it to melt away in the New Year, at least you can take comfort in knowing you’re not alone.

The dating trend has become so prevalent it now has its own name – being “snowmanned”.

Coined from the TV classic The Snowman, in which the central character turns to slush once Christmas is over, it is a festive variant on ghosting, the term for when a love interest disappears without explanation.

Around one in five of us has fallen victim to snowmanning after a too-merry run up to December 25, a poll found.

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Men are more likely to be given the cold shoulder than women – at 27% compared to 15% – the survey showed.

And younger daters fall foul more frequently than their older peers. Nearly half (47%) of Generation Z daters aged 16 to 26 admitted being snowballed, compared to only 7% of Baby Boomers aged over 59.

Millennials – those aged 27 to 42 – and Generation X – aged 43 to 58 – fell in between, with 40% and 31% of each group being frozen out.

Londoners and folk from Belfast were worst affected, with 37% put on ice, followed by those in Birmingham (28%) and Manchester (21%), while only 7% said similar in Sheffield.