Name days are an important date for a Christian, so you should learn about them in advance.
Once a year, Christians celebrate their name day – on the day of the angel of their name, which is closest to the birthday. On this day, the saint answers our prayers and comforts us. Name days are called spiritual birthdays, when we establish a special connection with our namesake saint.
When choosing a child’s name, many parents follow the tradition according to which Orthodox name days coincided with the birthday. So a boy or girl will have a Guardian Angel.
Name days in March: male and female name day calendar
March 1: Danilo, Yeremey, Ilya, Makar, Pavlo, Samuel, Julian.
March 2: Mykhailo, Mykola, Pavlo, Roman, Teodor, Fedir, Anna, Marianna, Maria, Pulcheria.
March 3: Vasyl, Viktor, Volodymyr, Voldemar, Kuzma, Lev, Pavlo.
March 4: Arkhip, Bohdan, Dmytro, Yevhen, Makar, Maxim, Nikita, Teodor, Fedir.
March 5: Anton, Opanas, Vasyl, David, Denis, Ivan, Hnat, Lev, Leontius, Luka, Mykola, Sava, Sergey, Theodore, Tykhin, Fedir, Philip, Khoma, Yan, Yaroslav.
March 6: Oleksandr, George, Grigory, Danylo, Yehor, Zakhar, Ivan, Konstantin, Ostap, Pavlo, Timofey, Jan, Olga.
March 7: Andriy, Opanas, Victor, Volodymyr, Voldemar, Ivan, Joseph, Mykhailo, Mykola, Sergey, Stepan, Teodor, Fedir, Philipp, Jan, Arina, Varvara, Elizaveta, Iryna, Paraska.
March 8: Oleksandr, Oleksiy, Demyan, Ivan, Klym, Kuzma, Mykhailo, Mykola, Sergey, Yan, Motrena.
March 9: Ivan, Hilarion, Jan.
March 10: Oleksandr, Anton, Yevhen, Taras, Teodor, Fedir.
March 11: Ivan, Mykola, Petro, Sevastyan, Sergey, Yan, Anna.
March 12: Makar, Mykhailo, Petro, Stepan, Timofey, Julian, Yakiv.
March 13: Arsen, Vasyl, Nestor, Mykola, Simon, Kira, Marina.
March 14: Alexander, Anton, Vasyl, Veniamin, Ivan, Mykhailo, Nestor, Peter, Yan, Oleksandra, Anna, Antonina, Daria, Evdokia, Motrena, Nadia, Olga.
March 15: Arsen, Bohdan, Yosyp, Mykola, Sava.
March 16: Mykhailo, Marta, Marfa.
March 17: Akakiy, Oleksandr, Vasyl, Vyacheslav, George, Grigoriy, Danylo, Yehor, Pavlo, Yakiv, Ulyana, Yuliana.
March 18: Adrian, George, David, Yehor, Ivan, Kirill, Konstantin, Luka, Mark, Mykola, Theodore, Fedir, Jan, Iraida.
March 19: Arkady, Konstantin, Maxim, Theodore, Fedir, Julian, Elena, Elena, Ilona.
March 20: Vasyl, Evgeny, Omelyan, Lavrenty, Nestor, Mykola, Nil, Pavlo, Emil, Anna, Antonina, Evdokia, Kateryna, Katarina, Ksenia, Maria, Motrona, Nadia, Oksana.
March 21: Opanas, Volodymyr, Voldemar, Dementii, Ivan, Jan.
March 22: Akakiy, Oleksandr, Oleksiy, Opanas, Valeriy, Dmytro, Ivan, Herakliy, Kirill, Leontius, Mykhailo, Mykola, Petro, Serhiy, Taras, Yan, Oleksandra, Natalia.
March 23: Victor, George, Denis, Dmytro, Yehor, Ivan, Leonid, Mark, Mykhailo, Pavlo, Yan, Anastasia, Vasylyna, Galina, Nika.
March 24: Vasyl, George, Yehor, Yukhym, Ivan, Jan, Sabina.
March 25: Oleksandr, Volodymyr, Voldemar, Hryhoriy, Dmytro, Ivan, Konstantin, Semyon, Serhiy, Yan.
March 26: Oleksandr, Hryhoriy, Mykhailo, Mykola, Khrystyna.
March 27: Mykhailo, Rostislav.
March 28: Oleksandr, Oleksiy, Denis, Mykhailo, Timofey, Emmanuel.
March 29: Oleksandr, Denis, Omelyan, Ivan, Pavlo, Roman, Trokhym, Emil, Yulian, Yan.
March 30: Oleksandr, Oleksiy, Viktor, Gavrilo, Makar, Pavlo.
March 31: Danylo, Dmytro, Kyrylo, Trokhym, Natalya.
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