Name Day in some European countries (Finland, Greece, people, live)

[Summerwhale]

Not everyone has a saints name.

[Ariete]

Originally Posted by Summerwhale

Not everyone has a saints name.

Here name days are completely irrelevant to saints.

[streetway]

We do have Name day in Slovakia (my day is 24th april "Juraj")
It's insignificant celebration nobody giving it any credit, actually it's quite awkward.

[Summerwhale]

Originally Posted by Ariete

Here name days are completely irrelevant to saints.

Well still my name isn't in Europe so I can't have a day.

[viribusunitis]

Originally Posted by Summerwhale

Well still my name isn't in Europe so I can't have a day.

Wow. What a post. Even when considering your posting history that's a fairly... well... special one.

In case your name really is Owen: Your name day could be celebrated on the 24th of August. On that day they honor a dude called Owen. Former bishop of *gasp* Rouen, France.

[Summerwhale]

Yes Owen is a Welsh name. Can't see too many europeans having a Welsh name.

[Natsku]

Originally Posted by Summerwhale

Yes Owen is a Welsh name. Can't see too many europeans having a Welsh name.

Well apart from all those Welsh Owens who are, also, European...

[Greysholic]

Originally Posted by viribusunitis

Wow. What a post. Even when considering your posting history that's a fairly... well... special one.

In case your name really is Owen: Your name day could be celebrated on the 24th of August. On that day they honor a dude called Owen. Former bishop of *gasp* Rouen, France.

I guess I should change my name into Owen. That's my birthday lol.

[Catbelle]

More important in the past than nowadays, most of people don't even know the Name Day, unless it is one of the important Saints, such as Juan, José, Pilar, Santiago, etc... I always try to send good wished when I remember one.
In my family we usually remember but it is not bigger than birthday.

[Urania93]

Originally Posted by Natsku

Celebrated my daughter's name day this year, mainly to make up for the fact that I felt gutted as a kid because I don't have a name day but one of my brothers, who has a Finnish name, did and he sometimes got presents on the day from relatives. Doesn't seem like anyone else celebrates it though.

I've read somewhere that, at least in Italy, in those cases you can choose to celebrate your name day the 1st of November. That day is called "ognissanti"="all the saints". In that day we remember also all the unknown saints that weren't recognized by the church, and so are not on the calendar. So that they are not recognized they can (ipotetically) have every possible name, also your one. Or at least this is what our wikipedia says.