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Name Days
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Name Days - Greek Name Days - Name Days in Crete & Greece



Name Days - Greek Name Days





Name Days are celebrated in Crete and Greece, as well as birthdays. Orthodox Greek name days are the feast days of saints. Children are usually named after one of the Christian saints and so celebrate their nameday on their namesake's saints day.


It is the custom for the person celebrating their Name Day to host a party or dinner, and treat his friends and family. Take note - if it's your birthday don't expect Greek friends to treat you to a drink , it is the custom for you to treat them!


Villages also celebrate their church's Name Day. For example a St. Mary's church (Maria) will have a Name Day on 15th August - the village festival (Panayiri) will usually start on the eve of the Name Day, in this case the 14th August, and run for two nights with food and drink, live music and dancing in the village square or taverna.



Name Day Dates





Name Day Dates for some of the most popular Greek Names:


JANUARY

1st January - Vassilis, Vassilia

7th January - Yiannis, Yianna

17th January - Antonis, Antonia

FEBRUARY

17th February - Theodoros, Theo

MARCH

17th March - Alexis, Alexios

25th March - Evangelos, Vangelis, Evangelia, Eva

APRIL

6th April - Eftyxis, Eftyxia

23rd April (or first Monday after Easter Sunday) - Georgos, Yiorgos, Georgia

MAY

May 5th - Irini, Rena

May 21st - Konstandinos, Kostas , Eleni

JUNE

June 29th - Petros, Pavlos

June 30th - Apostolis, Tolis

JULY

July 31st - Josef , Syphi

AUGUST

August 15th - Maria, Panayiotis

August 30th - Alexandros

SEPTEMBER

September 17th - Sofia, Agapi

September 29th - Kiriakos, Kiriaki

OCTOBER

October 26th - Dimitris, Dimitra

NOVEMBER

November 8th - Angelos

November 25th - Katerina

November 29th - Andreas

DECEMBER

December 6th - Nikolas, Niko

December 9th - Anna

December 15th - Eleftherios, Eleftheria

December 25th - Christos, Chrisoula, Manolis, Manolia

December 26th - Manolis, Manolia

December 27th - Stephanos, Stephania


For a complete list of Name Days in Greece see namedays.gr


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Related: Greece National Holidays



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