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National Hug a Kevin Day

Kevins are owed a hug on October 10, a second day for a name that already had one: the sixth-century hermit Saint Kevin, whose Glendalough monastery still stands, is kept on June 3.

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January

37 holidays

01Jan · FRIZ DayCultural observance on January 1 to prioritize people and things beginning with the letter Z by reversing standard alphabetical order.International 158 02Jan · SATNational Erica DayErica is not the heather. The plant genus is a Greek word for tree heather and the name is Old Norse by way of Eric, identical in English and unrelated in origin, so January 2 belongs to the people, not the flower.International 81 04Jan · MONNational Rachel DayRachel is Hebrew for ewe, and the first one was tending her father's sheep when Jacob met her at the well. Pilgrims still walk to her tomb outside Bethlehem, and January 4 is the version that stays at home.United States 286 04Jan · MONNational Clara DayHappy National Clara Day to all the amazing people out there with this beautiful name - today is your day to shine!International 69 05Jan · TUENational Ellen DayEllen was a boy's name too, listed in 73 of the 146 annual American files and last recorded in 1993. The American day for the name is January 5, though Sweden gives its Ellens August 18 instead.United States 69 06Jan · WEDNational Samantha DaySamantha has dropped out of America's top 100 while ranking second among girls born in the Philippines, which makes January 6 a day for a name doing better abroad than at home.United States 104 06Jan · WEDNational Smith DayJoin the celebration on National Smith Day and honor all those with this popular last name! Let's give a shoutout to our favorite Smiths.United States 13 06Jan · WEDNational Davis DayCalling all Davises! It's National Davis Day - a day to celebrate and honor the unique and special individuals with this popular name.International 0 09Jan · SATNational Austin DayCalling all Austinites! Get ready to celebrate your city and show off that southern charm on National Austin Day - let's keep it weird together.International 81 09Jan · SATNational Carter DayAttention all Carters - it's your day to shine! Join in on the celebrations and share your pride for sharing a name with some of history's most famous figures.International 48 11Jan · MONNational Tara DayLet's honor the amazing Taras in our lives on National Tara Day - whether it's your friend, sister, or daughter, show them some love and appreciation today!International 48 11Jan · MONNational Joel DayGet ready to honor the name Joel on National Joel Day - a day dedicated to all the amazing Joels out there! Spread love and appreciation for this popular name.International 24 13Jan · WEDNational Catherine DayCatherine of Braganza's marriage settlement put Bombay under British control in 1661 and left New York a county called Queens. On 13 January the name gets its own day in the United States.United States 116 13Jan · WEDNational Kathleen DayFor roughly fifty years, English-speaking commerce called an unpayable debt a Kathleen Mavourneen loan -- 'it may be for years and it may be forever'. January 13 takes the name back from the joke.United States 59 15Jan · FRINational Kayla DayKayla is a name with nothing underneath it, and the dictionaries can only break it into the sounds kay and la. January 15 gives a day to a coinage that reached 2,275 American girls in a single year.United States 116 17Jan · SUNNational Charlotte DayThe name Charlotte has belonged to a queen, a Bronte, and the spider in Charlotte's Web, and its day arrives with the name at its all-time American best.United States 92 17Jan · SUNNational Ta DayCalling all TAs! It's National TA Day and we're honoring all those amazing individuals with the name "TA." Show some love for your fellow TAs today!International 23 18Jan · MONNational Forrest DayHappy National Forrest Day to all the amazing people out there with the name Forrest! Let's celebrate their unique and special names today.International 58 19Jan · TUENational Lucy DayLucy's day runs from lux, the Latin for light, to a 3.2-million-year-old fossil named for a Beatles song.United States 95 19Jan · TUENational Annie DayEveryone named Annie is celebrating a Hebrew word for grace. Ḥanna became Hannah, Hannah became Anna, Anna became Anne, and Anne wore down to the nickname that now has the day.United States 47 20Jan · WEDNational Judy DayPunch's wife was Joan through the 1700s, and the one reference work that records her becoming Judy says it happened 'for some unknown reason'. January 20 keeps the day for a name people tend to arrive at rather than start with.International 58 20Jan · WEDNational Charlie DayAmerican parents gave Charlie to 19,715 boys and 20,939 girls over the last ten years, and no name that common sits closer to an even split. January 20 covers both columns.International 36 20Jan · WEDNational Sebastian DayCalling all Sebasts! National Sebastian Day is the perfect time to honor anyone with this name and celebrate their unique awesomeness. Join the party now!International 12 20Jan · WEDNational Claudia DayGet ready to celebrate National Claudia Day by honoring all the amazing Claudias in your life - friends, family, and colleagues! Spread love and appreciation for this special name.International 11 21Jan · THUNational Max DayThe American Kennel Club's 2025 count put Max first among boys' names, and every one of those boys was a dog; on American birth records Max comes 180th. January 21 keeps the date for the short form.International 46 22Jan · FRINational Vincent DayEvery Vincent shares a name day with a deacon killed at Valencia in 304 and with the painter who nearly always signed just 'Vincent', because outside the Netherlands people struggled with Van Gogh.International 58 22Jan · FRINational Ty DayTwo letters do the whole job, and National Ty Day goes to the people who answer to them rather than to the longer name everyone assumes must be hiding behind it.International 57 23Jan · SATNational Aiden DayIt's time to celebrate all the Aiden's out there and show them some love on National Aiden Day! Don't forget to tag your favorite Aiden and make their day extra special.International 81 23Jan · SATNational Pedro DayGet ready to fiesta on National Pedro Day! Enjoy delicious Mexican food, margaritas, and dancing as we honor the patron saint of Mexico.International 23 24Jan · SUNNational Matthew DayMatthew means gift of Yahweh, and the man who carried it collected taxes for Rome before ending up the patron saint of accountants. January 24 marks a name inherited from a rebel against foreign rule.International 119 25Jan · MONTatiana DayHonor the strong and beautiful women in your life on Tatiana Day - a day to celebrate femininity, strength, and resilience.Ukraine 12 26Jan · TUENational Diane DayDiane de Poitiers drank gold to stay young, and a 2008 dig at her tomb found deadly levels of it still in her hair. January 26 belongs to the 514,649 American women registered with the French form of the name she carried.International 126 28Jan · THUNational Amy DayAmy does not merely suggest beloved; grammatically it is the word, the Old French past participle of amer, to love. Its day goes to a name that spent four straight years as America's number two, always behind Jennifer.International 150 28Jan · THUNational Tina DaySlovenia has more Tinas living in it than ever recorded, 7,841 of them on 1 January 2026, and registered twelve newborn ones in the whole of last year. January 28 is the name's day, and it belongs to the first number.International 47 29Jan · FRINational Colin DayColin Powell was Cah-lin at home until a pilot named Colin Kelly died holding a burning bomber level in 1941 and every boy on his street started saying it the American way. January 29 takes both pronunciations.International 128 30Jan · SATNational Maxwell DayCalling all Maxwells! It's time to celebrate your name on National Maxwell Day - post a selfie, share fun facts, and connect with fellow Maxwells.International 23 31Jan · SUNNational Seth DaySeth has never been fashionable and has never gone away either, which is a fair thing to keep a day for. The verse that first hands out the name stops to explain it, as a son set in place of a murdered brother.International 91

202602

February

26 holidays

01Feb · MONNational Sean DaySean Connery was born Thomas Connery, and the Nobel laureate Sean MacBride joined the IRA at thirteen. February 1 belongs to the men who actually answer to it, a name 423,411 American boys have carried since 1926.United States 116 01Feb · MONNational Cameron DayNothing happened at Glenfinnan in 1745 until the pipes came over the hill: the first clansmen to appear were following Cameron of Lochiel, with 600 men behind him. February 1 marks a name meaning crooked nose, or crooked hill.United States 81 02Feb · TUENational Frank DayNational Frank Day belongs to a name taken from a Germanic people, and the tribe gave English more than that: the freedom the Franks held in conquered Gaul turned frank into the adjective for candour.United States 70 02Feb · TUENational Brendan DayBehind National Brendan Day sits an old Irish name and a story about a monk who sailed into the Atlantic looking for a promised land. Somebody built that boat out of ash, oak and ox hides and made the crossing.United States 12 03Feb · WEDNational Trevor DayTrevor is a Welsh place name meaning big village, and it spent centuries on the map before anyone used it as a first name. The village is still there in north-east Wales, under an aqueduct that is now a World Heritage Site.United States 69 06Feb · SATNational Ashley DayAshley's day salutes a name that began as an Old English word for an ash-tree clearing and spent more than eighty years in American records as a boy's name before girls took it over.United States 104 07Feb · SUNNational Jack DayJacks get a day whose best evidence sits in every deck of cards: when 'Kn' for knave proved too easy to confuse with 'K' for king, card makers took the name already meaning an ordinary man.United States 161 09Feb · TUENational Owen DayOwen went to 7,190 American boys in the most recent published year and 298 across England and Wales, 31st against 170th. February 9 is the date the Welsh press keeps for a Welsh name.United States 81 10Feb · WEDNational Louis DayCalling all the Louis' out there! It's time to celebrate your unique name and join in on the fun for National Louis Day. Let's make it a day to remember!International 35 10Feb · WEDNational Julio DayGet ready to fiesta on National Julio Day! Bring out the sombreros and maracas for a day filled with delicious food, music, and fun. ¡Olé!International 24 11Feb · THUNational Ava DayCelebrating a name that fame alone never lifted: Ava missed the 1950s top 200 despite Ava Gardner's stardom, then held a top-five place for sixteen straight years half a century later.United States 163 11Feb · THUNational Marc DayAmerica registered 162 boys named Marc in 2025; Catalonia, one region of Spain, registered 371. February 11 is an American day for a spelling other languages never stopped using.United States 48 11Feb · THUNational Van DayRev up your engines and hit the road, it's National Van Day! Time to take a scenic drive with friends and family in your trusty van.International 34 12Feb · FRINational Brayden DayIn 2010 and again in 2011, Jayden, Aiden and Brayden all sat in America's top 40 at once, three rhyming names with three separate origins. February 12 belongs to the one whose Irish root means a salmon, or a small thief.United States 34 13Feb · SATNational Jamie DayAn Edinburgh man called Jamie Duff had a craze for attending funerals, and Scots ended up naming the mourning crape itself after him. February 13 goes to a name Scotland reads as a boy's and America as a girl's.International 105 13Feb · SATNational Derrick DayGet ready to celebrate National Derrick Day and show some love for all the Derricks in your life!International 47 14Feb · SUNNational Christine DayChristine de Pizan was widowed young and wrote ten volumes in verse to keep three young children fed. February 14 hands her name to everyone carrying it now.United States 127 15Feb · MONNational Marcus DayMarcus is the Roman original of the name English shortens to Mark, and February 15 leaves it at full length. The emperor who carried it wrote his notebook in Greek, and nobody is sure he meant anyone else to read it.United States 80 23Feb · TUENational Rudy DayGet ready to unleash your inner goofball and celebrate National Rudy Day with silly pranks, jokes, and laughter!International 34 25Feb · THUNational Jessica DayThe first Jessica was Shylock's daughter, who speaks about 660 words in The Merchant of Venice before eloping in a boy's disguise with a casket of his ducats. Every Jessica since has February 25.United States 310 25Feb · THUNational Kathy DayKathy went to 34,766 US girls in the 1940s and 22,706 in the 1970s, then vanished: no decade since has put it among the country's 200 most popular girls' names. February 25 is its day.United States 138 25Feb · THUNational Nicholas DayThe story that Dutch settlers carried Sinterklaas to New Amsterdam and English speakers wore it down to Santa Claus has an author: a New York satirist who made it up. National Nicholas Day marks the name underneath.United States 115 25Feb · THUNational Billy DayIt's time to honor all the Billys out there on National Billy Day! Show them some love and appreciation for being awesome.International 24 26Feb · FRINational Saul DayGet ready to party like a Saul-star on National Saul Day! From fun festivities to delicious food, this day is dedicated to all the amazing people named Saul.International 0 27Feb · SATNational Susan DayNearly every Susan in America was born inside two decades, which makes February 27 less a name day than a reunion: their average age is roughly 66.United States 185 27Feb · SATNational Albert DayFive European countries keep November 15 for Albert, the day the Dominican who taught Thomas Aquinas died. February 27 is the American addition, and it appears on none of the nineteen name days Europe already keeps.United States 46

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March

42 holidays

01Mar · MONNational Sage DayA fun observance on March 1 celebrating the unisex name Sage, its historical roots meaning wise one, and the medicinal herb sage.International 24 02Mar · TUENational Walter DayThe patron saint invoked against job-related stress is a Walter who handed Pope Gregory VII a written resignation and had it refused. March 2 marks a name 631,172 American boys have carried since 1880.United States 80 03Mar · WEDNational Jackson DayJackson is the 19th commonest surname in the United States, held by 708,099 people, and for thirteen straight years it beat John as a first name too. March 3 is for everyone who carries it, inherited or chosen.United States 91 03Mar · WEDNational Rita DayRita reached its American high point in the year Rita Hayworth turned twelve and was still Margarita Carmen Cansino. Her first film was years away, so Hollywood caught up with the name instead of making it.United States 69 03Mar · WEDNational Robin DayThe Robins get March 3, and the bird that shares the name keeps a day of its own in December. The most famous Robin of all may never have existed, which takes nothing away from the ones who do.United States 47 04Mar · THUNational Ray DayRay Bradbury and Ray Charles were each born Ray, shortening nothing. March 4 is the day for a name that doubles as the English word for a beam of light.United States 103 04Mar · THUNational Quinton DayA fun observance on March 4 celebrating the name Quinton, its Old English meaning of "queen's settlement" and Latin meaning of "fifth," honoring people with the name.International 1 05Mar · FRINational Scott DayScot was a warning in the Roman record before it was anybody's name, used in the fourth century for raiders who came out of Ireland. March 5 hands the day to a name that changed countries.United States 126 06Mar · SATNational Brian DayA day for Brians, whose first famous bearer, High King Brian Boru, was killed in his tent by fleeing Vikings even as his army won at Clontarf in 1014.United States 423 06Mar · SATNational Shirley DayUntil Charlotte Brontë gave it to her 1849 heroine, Shirley was rare for men and unrecorded for women. March 6 marks the name now, long since settled on the girls' side of the register.International 114 06Mar · SATNational Ford DayFord stands in for five separate Gaelic surnames in Ireland, adopted, one index says, under ridicule from English magistrates who did not speak the language. March 6 belongs to everyone the four letters landed on.International 23 06Mar · SATNational Damien DayA fun observance on March 6 honoring and celebrating all people named Damien, highlighting the name's history and positive qualities while countering negative cultural associations.International 0 07Mar · SUNNational Ben DayPrinters hear 'Ben Day' and think of an 1879 dot-shading process rather than a person; this one puts the Bens and Benjamins first.International 275 07Mar · SUNNational Sharon DayThe rose of Sharon is not a rose, and lexicographers still cannot agree which flower the Hebrew meant. March 7 hands the name back to the people who wear it, the 720,759 American girls given it since 1926.International 126 07Mar · SUNNational Carol DayThe Christmas carol and the name Carol have never shared an ancestor: one is a round dance English borrowed around 1300, the other is Caroline clipped short. March 7 gives the name a day of its own.International 92 07Mar · SUNNational Teresa DayMarch 7 is the Teresas' day, and there is a long line of them standing behind it. Ring yours, ask who she was named after, and check which spelling is on her paperwork before you order anything engraved.International 51 07Mar · SUNNamesake DayDiscover the unique story behind your name this Namesake Day; honor your past, celebrate your identity and inspire your future!United States 26 07Mar · SUNNational Cooper DayA fun observance on March 7 honoring the surname Cooper, originating from the occupational name for barrel makers, and celebrating the historical importance of the coopering craft in trade and aging beverages.International 23 08Mar · MONFun Facts About Names DayA fun observance on the Monday of Celebrate Your Name Week sharing interesting, historical, and etymological facts about personal names, their origins, and meanings.United States 175 09Mar · TUEUnique Names DayA fun observance on March 3 celebrating unique, rare, or uncommonly spelled names and encouraging pride in names that are often mispronounced or hard to find on personalized items.United States 142 09Mar · TUENational Lina DayA fun observance on March 9 celebrating and honoring people named Lina, appreciating the name's meanings related to tenderness, delicacy, and purity across various cultures.International 57 09Mar · TUENational Marcia DayThe Brady Bunch reached the air in 1969, by which point Marcia had already slid to 260th, and across the show's whole run it never climbed. March 9 marks a name that peaked back in 1951.International 57 09Mar · TUENational Shane DayA fun observance on March 9 celebrating all people named Shane and the name's Irish origins meaning "God is gracious."International 23 10Mar · WEDNational Drake DayA fun observance on March 10 celebrating all people named Drake, including rapper Aubrey Graham, and honoring the cultural associations of the name.International 68 12Mar · FRINational Christian DayEnglish scribes were writing Christian as a personal name by 1183, and in Britain it went to women as well as men. The day belongs to the people called it, not to the faith that shares the word.International 104 12Mar · FRINational Ruth DayMost Ruths are named for someone, and behind the whole line stands a Moabite widow who chose a foreign country over her own. National Ruth Day belongs to all of them, whether or not the family story reaches that far.International 57 14Mar · SUNNational Valerie DayAn enamel reliquary made in Limoges around 1170 shows Valerie handing over her own severed head, and it is in the British Museum today. March 14 is the light modern sequel, for a name kin to valor and valedictorian.International 218 20Mar · SATNational Vanessa DayNobody knows what Esther Van Homrigh looked like: no eighteenth-century portrait said to be her was taken from life. National Vanessa Day belongs to the name coined for her, later given to a butterfly genus.United States 137 21Mar · SUNNational Peter DayPeter last sat inside the hundred commonest US boys' names in 1996, and the best it has managed since is 102nd. March 21 carries a name 589,588 US boys have been given since 1880.International 59 21Mar · SUNNational Beverly DayA fun observance on March 21 celebrating people named Beverly, honoring the name's Old English origin meaning "beaver meadow" and its connection to nature.International 11 22Mar · MONNational Donald DayDonald came out of Scotland meaning ruler of the world, carried by kings and made common by the clan that took it for its own. National Donald Day sits with that name and not the cartoon duck, who has a June day of his own.International 80 23Mar · TUENational Jacob DayJacob turns up twice on the same government list: thirtieth under its own spelling, first as James, because Latin speakers split one Hebrew name in two and English kept both roads open. March 23 is the day for one of them.International 149 23Mar · TUENational Alice DayLewis Carroll gets the credit for Alice and was seven centuries late: the name had been current in England since the 1100s. The day it keeps on March 23 is, by a wide margin, the newest thing about it.International 58 24Mar · WEDNational Stephanie DayA day for Stephanies, whose Greek root stephanos meant the crown of victory and whose ranks include Stephanie Kwolek, the chemist behind Kevlar.International 174 26Mar · FRINational Landon DayA fun observance on March 26 celebrating all people named Landon.International 80 26Mar · FRINational Wayne DayEvery Wayne is carrying a word for a wagon, since the surname began with the man who made them. March 26 belongs to the first-name Waynes, 10,169 of whom were registered in America in 1947 alone.International 47 27Mar · SATNational Joe DayA fun observance on March 27 celebrating people named Joe or its variants, the average Joe, and the enjoyment of a cup of joe.United States 149 28Mar · SUNNational Amber DayThe word behind Amber travelled from Arabic anbar, meaning ambergris, which comes from whales and is not resin at all. March 28 belongs to a name that arrived by way of a sperm whale.International 58 28Mar · SUNNational Ram DayA fun observance on March 28 celebrating people named Ram and the historical, cultural, and linguistic significance of the name, originating from Sanskrit meaning "archer" or "attractive" with ties to Hindu mythology.International 23 30Mar · TUENational Julia DayNobody has settled what Julia means: Latin scholars split between a Greek word for downy-bearded and the god Jupiter. March 30 gives the name a day that no Roman girl ever got to choose.International 115 30Mar · TUENational Wendy DayA small child's mispronunciation gave Barrie the name he put on stage in 1904, and American birth registers took thirty years to catch up: ten girls in 1934. March 30 is the day it eventually earned.International 80 30Mar · TUENational Victoria DayThe name's biggest year in America was 1993, long after Queen Victoria died. March 30 belongs to that strikingly modern crowd rather than to the monarch, who was christened Alexandrina Victoria anyway.International 48

202604

April

34 holidays

01Apr · THUNational Connor DayBehind Connor is Conchobar, an Old Irish king's name built from the words for hound and for desiring. April 1 hands the day to every Connor, Conor and Conner, and the first writer to mark it opened by swearing it was not a prank.International 93 01Apr · THUMyles DayJoin the celebration of Myles Day, honoring one of Brian O'Nolan's iconic characters, with wit, humor, and a pint of Guinness!United States 24 03Apr · SATNational Grey DayZane Grey's parents were called Gray and changed the letter after he was born. April 3 belongs to the e spelling, which Americans are told they do not use and have given to more babies than the other one every year since 2006.International 80 04Apr · SUNNational Dillon DayCalling all Dillons, it's time to shine! Celebrate National Dillon Day by embracing your unique name and sharing the love with all the other Dillons out there.International 80 06Apr · TUENational Robert DayRobert topped the American charts from 1924 into the late 1930s, but the decade that produced the most Roberts came later: 830,395 boys in the 1950s, after the name had already slipped to third. April 6 is theirs.International 126 06Apr · TUENational Jay DayIn 1905 a Kansas paper warned readers about the jay driver, jay being American slang for a rube. Parents went on naming their sons Jay right through it, and April 6 is the day for everyone who still carries it.International 92 06Apr · TUENational Taylor DayTaylor was the 17th most common surname in the 2010 US census. April 6 belongs to the first name instead, one American parents have given to both girls and boys since the 1950s.International 81 06Apr · TUENational Parker DayCalling all Parkers! It's time to celebrate your name on National Parker Day - embrace your unique identity and join the festivities.International 68 07Apr · WEDNational Nico DayIn Spain, Nico is almost entirely a children's name: the population register lists 2,661 men and boys with a mean age of 6.8 years, and only sixteen names in the country run younger. April 7 belongs to all of them.International 24 10Apr · SATNational Tamara DayEveryone named Tamara celebrates alongside Tamera and Tamra: all three spellings jumped in the same year, 1957, when Debbie Reynolds took a song called Tammy to number one.International 68 10Apr · SATNational Calvin DayCalvin Coolidge was born John Calvin Coolidge, and his family dropped the John. April 10 marks the name that stayed.International 47 11Apr · SUNNational James DayJames and Jacob are the same name, whose Hebrew root means one that takes by the heel, for the twin born gripping his brother's. National James Day goes to the first name six American presidents shared.International 297 12Apr · MONNational Gavin DayCalling all Gavins! It's time to celebrate National Gavin Day and show off your unique name with pride. Let's make this day unforgettable!International 47 12Apr · MONNational Maya DayIt's time to honor all the amazing Mayas out there - Happy National Maya Day! Let's celebrate your unique name and heritage.International 35 12Apr · MONNational Dolores DayIt's time to show some love to all the Dolores' out there on National Dolores Day! Share your favorite memories and make this day extra special.International 23 12Apr · MONSilvia Name DayHonor the Silvias in your life on their special day with love, joy, and meaningful gestures! Happy Silvia Name Day to all!International 23 13Apr · TUENational Theresa DayTwo of the four women ever named a Doctor of the Church carried this name, and Mother Teresa borrowed it from one of them in 1928, having been baptised Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu. April 13 is the day for everyone else who carries it.International 47 15Apr · THUNational Keaton DayIt's time to celebrate all the amazing people named Keaton! Happy National Keaton Day - let's make it a day to remember!International 11 16Apr · FRINational Joseph DayCalling all Josephs! It's your day to shine and show the world why you have one of the most popular names in history. Happy National Joseph Day!International 104 16Apr · FRINational Angel DayCalling all angels! It's National Angel Day and we're celebrating all the amazing people named Angel with love, gratitude, and appreciation.International 68 18Apr · SUNNational Lydia DayAnyone marking Lydia's day is celebrating an address rather than a compliment. In Greek the name means from Lydia, an ancient kingdom in what is now western Turkey.International 69 19Apr · MONNational Hayden DayCalling all Haydens! It's time to celebrate your unique name on National Hayden Day - embrace your individuality and share your stories.International 91 19Apr · MONJohn Parker DayHonor the legacy of John Parker on this special day dedicated to his courage, resilience, and fight for equality. Happy John Parker Day!United States 12 21Apr · WEDNational Alex DayAlex is hiding inside Iskandar in Arabic, Sikandar in Urdu and Sasha in Russian. All of them get the day, along with a feminine form that began as an epithet of the goddess Hera.International 194 21Apr · WEDNational Javier DayIt's time to honor all the Javiers out there on National Javier Day - join us in celebrating this unique and meaningful name!International 68 22Apr · THUNational Terry DayMost Terrys were named decades ago, so National Terry Day tends to land on the older people in a family. Call rather than post, which is the difference between marking a day and keeping it.International 80 23Apr · FRINational Bryan DayA day for everyone who got the y: Bryan entered the federal name files twenty-six years before Brian, and the two spellings have never behaved like one name.International 126 24Apr · SATNational Brandon DayThe town of Brandon in Suffolk appears in 11th-century records as Bromdun, a hill under yellow broom. April 24 hands the day to a cohort as much as a name, sixth among American boys through 1992, 1993 and 1994.International 229 26Apr · MONNational Jason DayA Jerusalem high priest called Jesus swapped his name for Jason in the middle of a fight over his office, and Josephus wrote it down in one flat line. April 26 goes to the 1,050,360 American boys who came after.International 160 26Apr · MONNational Gabriel DayHappy National Gabriel Day to all the amazing people with this name! Let's celebrate their uniqueness and spread love and positivity.International 24 27Apr · TUENational Patricia DayIn 1914 Princess Patricia hand-sewed a crimson colour for the Canadian regiment named after her, and it went into every battle the Patricias fought. April 27 keeps the day for the name behind it.International 173 27Apr · TUENational Alicia DayIt's time to give a shoutout to all the amazing people named Alicia on National Alicia Day - your unique name deserves recognition!International 115 28Apr · WEDNational Franklin DayCalling all the Franklins out there - it's your day to shine! Celebrate National Franklin Day with pride and share your unique name with the world.International 23 30Apr · FRINational Larry DayLarry went onto 800,069 Social Security applications over the last hundred years, against 375,643 for Lawrence, the name it is short for. April 30 marks the short form that took the original's place.International 137

202605

May

32 holidays

02May · SUNNational Sandra DaySandra was a pet form of Alexandra until George Meredith handed a novel's heroine the name in 1864, and English readers kept it. May 2 belongs to a name now vanishing from the country that adopted it.International 160 02May · SUNNational Byron DayCalling all Byrons! It's time to celebrate your name and all the amazing people who share it.International 23 05May · WEDNational Devin DayHappy National Devin Day to all the amazing people out there who share this wonderful name - let's celebrate with fun memories and good company!International 80 06May · THUNational Aidan DayTime to celebrate all the Aidans out there! Don't forget to show your favorite Aidan some love and appreciation on this special day.International 115 06May · THUNational Tony DayTony has been a Broadway award, an English word for a fool and, in Chile, a circus clown. May 6 sets all that aside for the people who actually answer to it.International 104 07May · FRINational Avery DayPlenty of Averys were named for a grandparent, a mother's maiden name, or somebody on television, and National Avery Day covers the lot. Hardly anyone was named for the origin, which is a Norman respelling of Alfred.International 148 08May · SATNational Maria DayIn much of Greece a Maria's name day outranks her birthday: an open house, and visitors who arrive without being invited. May 8 is the lightweight American cousin of that custom.United States 263 08May · SATNational Dakota DayCalling all Dakotas! It's time to celebrate your unique name and show off your state pride on National Dakota Day. Let the festivities begin!International 80 08May · SATNational Nova DayCalling all Novas! It's time to celebrate your unique name and all the amazing people who share it on National Nova Day. Let's make it a day to remember!International 34 09May · SUNNational Christina DayA queen signed this name off a throne at Uppsala in 1654, and both copies of the act survive, one in Stockholm and one in the Vatican. May 9 marks the name; the day is the one part of the story nobody wrote down.International 150 12May · WEDNational Anthony DayEveryone named Anthony celebrates under a spelling mistake: the h crept in during the 1600s, when English wrongly tied the Latin Antonius to the Greek word for flower.International 172 13May · THUNational Anita DayTwo unrelated names share the spelling Anita: one shrinks from Ana and Hannah, the other has a separate Hindi root. May 13 goes to both, including the 1,100 Italian girls given the name in 2024.International 125 13May · THUNational Drew DaySome Drews are short for Andrew and some have no connection to him at all, and the day takes both. The second kind descend from Drogo, a Frankish name nobody has ever managed to translate.International 94 14May · FRINational Bruce DayRobert de Bruce crossed with the Conqueror carrying a name with no meaning of its own, only a place in Normandy; in 1952 it stood 25th among American boys and now sits 536th. May 14 marks it anyway.International 149 17May · MONNational Linda DayJack Lawrence wrote the song Linda as a favor to his lawyer, who wanted one for his young daughter; she grew up to be Linda McCartney. The Lindas who came after her have May 17.United States 325 18May · TUENational Marvin DayCalling all Marvins! It's time to celebrate your unique name and join in on the fun of National Marvin Day - a day just for you!International 80 18May · TUENational Brock DayCalling all Brocks! It's time to celebrate your unique name and all the amazing people who share it on National Brock Day. Let's raise a glass to being one-of-a-kind!International 11 20May · THUNational Eli DayThe first Eli was a priest of ninety-eight who fell backwards off his seat and broke his neck when the Ark was captured. The day takes his name and the different Hebrew one inside Elijah, spelled the same in English.International 81 20May · THUNational Rio DayCalling all Rios! Celebrate National Rio Day and share your unique name with pride - because you're one of a kind.International 0 22May · SATNational Julie DayPurely by calendar accident, Julies share their day with Julia of Corsica, Julie in French, a Carthaginian slave crucified for refusing to sacrifice to pagan gods.United States 269 23May · SUNNational Ethan DayEthan is a Hebrew adjective before it is a name: perennial, ever-flowing, the word Amos uses for an unfailing stream. May 23 hands it to the living Ethans, whose namesake took Fort Ticonderoga without firing a shot.International 139 23May · SUNNational Reed DayCalling all Reeds! It's time to embrace your name and celebrate National Reed Day with pride - share your stories and connect with fellow Reeds.International 0 24May · MONNational Mike DayMike is short for a question, and for 38 unbroken years it was also short for the most common boys' name in the country. May 24 gives the nickname a day, on a date no source explains.International 202 25May · TUENational George DayEngland kept St George's feast from the eighth century and still barely used his name: it took the Crusades to import it and a German elector's accession in 1714 to make it common. May 25 is the day it now gets.International 80 25May · TUENational Cody DayHappy National Cody Day to all the Codys out there! Let's celebrate with some fun and unique activities that honor this awesome name.International 57 25May · TUENational Enzo DayHappy National Enzo Day to all the amazing people with this unique name! Let's celebrate and honor the Enzos in our lives.International 11 27May · THUNational Melissa DayMelissa has been a bee-nymph, a priestess's title and, in 1999, the fastest-spreading computer virus of its time. May 27 is the one version of the name that belongs only to people.International 221 27May · THUNational Aaron DayOn Mount Hor, Moses took the priestly vestments off his brother Aaron and put them on Aaron's son. National Aaron Day lands on a name the reference books still refuse to translate.International 105 27May · THUNational Jordan DayCrusaders brought water home from the river Jordan to baptize their children, and the river became a first name. The day covers the boys and the girls alike.International 91 28May · FRINational Jake DayJake's name day tracks a word that keeps getting away from the people who carry it: a live trademark on truck engine brakes, a young male wild turkey in state hunting law, and slang for fine.International 114 30May · SUNNational Jennifer DayThe day belongs to a crowd: Jennifer ran number one among American girls' names for fifteen straight years, and at the 1972 peak roughly one girl in 25 received it.United States 473 30May · SUNNational Sofia DayBulgaria's capital has kept a Sofia Day every 17 September since its council voted for the date, marked with a flag-raising at the Church of St Sophia. National Sofia Day, on May 30, is a different thing entirely.International 58

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June

36 holidays

02Jun · WEDNational Bubba DayCelebrate National Bubba Day with your favorite person - share a laugh, tell stories, and enjoy the special bond between you!United States 98 02Jun · WEDNational Janice DayJanice got a bestselling novel in 1899 and barely moved, sitting on a plateau of at most 51 girls a year for the six years after. June 2 is in practice a day for women born in the middle of the last century.International 95 03Jun · THUNational Carl DayCarl comes from an Old High German word meaning nothing grander than a man, and after Charlemagne the name itself became the word for king in Czech, Hungarian and Russian. June 3 hands the day back to the ordinary Carls.International 34 05Jun · SATNational Jenny DayThe day tips its hat to every Jenny whose birth certificate reads Jennifer, the name that held America's number one spot every year from 1970 to 1984.International 196 05Jun · SATNational Janet DayHurricane Janet took the name off the Atlantic list for good in 1955, and the reconnaissance flight sent into it on 26 September was never found. June 5 hands the name back to the living Janets.International 116 05Jun · SATNational Joyce DayJoyce started out as a man's name, from a Breton saint called Judoc; the American record now holds 509,332 girls against 2,900 boys. June 5 is the day for the name -- not for the novelist, who already has Bloomsday.International 71 06Jun · SUNNational Cynthia DayCynthia began as a place, the rocky hill on Delos where Artemis was born, and her worshippers borrowed it as a nickname for the goddess. June 6 goes to the women who carry it, not to the December name day older calendars keep.International 185 07Jun · MONNational Benjamin DayRachel named the boy Ben-oni with her dying breath; his father overruled her and called him Benjamin. June 7 marks the name with no saint attached, unlike the March 31 feast five European calendars keep.International 83 07Jun · MONNational Alexandra DayBefore Alexandra belonged to anyone, it was a Mycenaean title for the goddess Hera and a second name for Cassandra. June 7 hands it to the people who carry it now.International 46 07Jun · MONNational Elias DayHappy National Elias Day to all the amazing people named Elias! Let's celebrate and honor the unique and wonderful individuals with this name.International 25 08Jun · TUENational Karen DayKaren got there first: Merriam-Webster files the insult as based on the given name, not the other way round. June 8 is the name's day, and a survey of 681 bearers found more than three quarters reported being laughed at.International 163 09Jun · WEDNational Helen DayName sites will tell you Helen means shining light, but the oldest surviving attempt to define it, a chorus written around 458 BC, read it as ruin. June 9 hands a day to a name that outran its own definition.United States 138 09Jun · WEDNational Earl DayCalling all Earls! It's National Earl Day and we're celebrating your unique name with discounts, special treats, and fun activities just for you. Don't miss out!United States 69 09Jun · WEDNational Mitchell DayCalling all Mitchells! It's your day to shine and celebrate your unique name.International 57 10Jun · THUNational Debra DayDebra is not a nickname for Deborah but the same name respelled, its two-syllable pronunciation written down. National Debra Day goes to that spelling alone, which drew 50,541 American girls in a single year before fading out.International 127 10Jun · THUNational Shawn DayNational Shawn Day belongs to everyone who got the spelling that tells you how to say it, rather than Sean or Shaun. The name is not a translation of anything, only a pronunciation somebody wrote down until it stuck.International 35 11Jun · FRINational Olivia DayOlivia grew out of a tree, the Latin oliva, whose branch has stood for peace since the thirteenth century. June 11 gives a day to the name that has led the girls' charts in England and Wales since 2016.International 195 12Jun · SATNational Esther DayA day for people named Esther, whose biblical book is the only one of the Hebrew Bible missing from the roughly nine hundred manuscripts found at Qumran.International 103 13Jun · SUNNational Jane DayLady Jane Grey held the English throne for nine days in 1553 and was executed the year after. June 13 belongs to the living Janes, on a name Irish renders as Siobhan and English uses as a byword for plain.International 139 13Jun · SUNNational Frances DayFannie Coralie Perkins renamed herself Frances at twenty-five and kept it through marriage, a Cabinet post and a 2024 presidential proclamation that records the change. June 13 belongs to everyone who carries the name she picked.International 36 16Jun · WEDNational Richard DayBetween 1934 and 1950 Richard rose 53.8% while Dick fell 76.2%: the same name moving in two directions at once, since Dick had been its ordinary short form since the Middle Ages. June 16 belongs to both.International 84 16Jun · WEDNational Mohammad DayOn National Mohammad Day, let's celebrate all the amazing people who share this iconic name and their contributions to our world!International 68 16Jun · WEDNational Casey DayCasey took ninety years to travel from a newspaper ballad to America's top 100 boys' names, arriving in 1978. The day is for the name, not for any one Casey.International 34 17Jun · THUNational Mason DayAmerican boys named Mason outnumber the country's working stonemasons by more than twelve to one, and the trade is forecast to keep shrinking. June 17 goes to the name, not the job.International 106 18Jun · FRINational Jesse dayJesse's emblem outlived the cathedral that held it: fire took Chartres in 1194, and the Tree of Jesse was one of four windows left standing. June 18 is the Jesses' own day.International 126 20Jun · SATAnne and Samantha DayMark Anne and Samantha Day by celebrating the strong, inspiring women in your life - let's honor their achievements and their influence!United States 24 20Jun · SUNNational Jimmy DayJimmy is a diminutive of a diminutive, two removes from James, and since 1848 it has also meant a burglar's crowbar. The day goes to the people who carry it rather than the tool.International 128 24Jun · THUNational Kenneth DayThe Annals of Ulster call Kenneth I king of the Picts, not of Scots, and no source tells the story of him conquering them until around 1210. June 24 hands the day to the name he left behind.International 115 24Jun · THUJaniExperience the magic of Jani, a Latvian festival filled with bonfires, traditional songs and dances, and delicious food to celebrate the summer solstice!Latvia 23 26Jun · SATNational Sarah DayNobody knows who started National Sarah Day, when, or why it landed on June 26. The name is the opposite of a mystery: it has appeared on the US baby-name list every year since 1880, when it already ranked tenth.United States 394 26Jun · SATNational Zachary DayZachary was the 16th most popular American boys' name of the 1990s, given to 225,290 newborns; by the 2020s it had slid to 168th. June 26 is a nod to everyone still called Zachary, Zach, Zac or Zak.International 285 27Jun · SUNNational Jim DayJim went to 92 Dutch boys last year and to 38 American ones, in a country with a twenty-sixth of the births. June 27 marks a short name that never folded back into James.International 25 28Jun · MONNational Grant DayA Grant is not named for the verb; the surname is Norman French for great or large. June 28 belongs to a name Scotland has nearly stopped giving, down from 311 boys in 1991 to three in 2025.International 25 29Jun · TUENational Fred DayFred stopped pointing at a person during the First World War, when British soldiers sang about Fred Karno's army and the phrase became slang for an incompetent outfit. June 29 gives the name back.International 106 29Jun · TUENational Gordon DayEveryone assumes the name spread after General Gordon died at Khartoum, but American records say otherwise: Stanley, Kenneth and Leslie all rose faster over the same five years. June 29 marks a name whose big story fails checking.International 24 29Jun · TUENational Nash DayCalling all Nashes! It's time to celebrate your unique name on National Nash Day. Share your stories and connect with fellow Nashes from around the world.International 23

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July

36 holidays

04Jul · SUNNational Sophie DaySophie is a Greek noun before it is anything else: sophia, wisdom, the word sitting inside philosophy. July 4 belongs to the French form of it, and to the 7,087 girls England and Wales registered in its best year.International 94 04Jul · SUNNational Karl DayKarl is an old name across northern Europe, and plenty of the families who use it spell it Carl instead. Scandinavia has kept its own Karl day far longer, on the deep-winter date Charlemagne died.International 12 05Jul · MONNational Ian DayIan went to 421 Scottish boys in 1974 and to six in 2025. July 5 gives the name a day in America, which held on to it long after Scotland let it go.International 69 05Jul · MONNational Sylvia DayHappy National Sylvia Day to all the strong, beautiful, and amazing people who share this name - keep shining bright like your namesake!International 25 06Jul · TUENational Daniel DayNational Daniel Day carries a workplace conspiracy inside it: officials talk King Darius into banning prayer, knowing exactly whose habit it will break. The lions' den follows, and the name has never fallen below 55th since 1880.International 95 08Jul · THUNational Denise DayA day belonging to a name America took up fast and put down: Denise has missed the top 200 in every decade since the 1980s, yet the spelling was already in England's poll tax lists of 1381.International 129 08Jul · THUNational Kathryn DayAcross 146 years of American birth records, Kathryn was never once the most common spelling of its own name; it held second place for 23 unbroken years. July 8 is the day for a spelling that did not have to win.International 83 10Jul · SATNational Caleb DayThe likeliest root of Caleb is the Hebrew word for dog, which the King James translators met 32 times and never once softened. July 10 gives a day to a name the lexicons have still not finished translating.International 57 10Jul · SATNational Stella DayStella is simply the Latin for star, and the day goes to every one of them, including the Stellas whose name is really a Greek one that wandered into the same spelling.International 46 12Jul · MONNational Tyler DayTyler works as a date stamp: 71.6 percent of the American boys ever given it were born between 1988 and 2007. July 12 gathers that one generation, 541,525 people deep at the last census.International 94 13Jul · TUENational Sam DaySam has never really been counted, because every Samuel and Samantha who answers to it is registered under the long name. July 13 was picked for them by a listing site that had found four social media mentions.United States 94 13Jul · TUENational Paul DayIn 1975 American parents made Paul their 29th most common boys' name while French parents ranked it 122nd; by 2025 the order had flipped, France 23rd and the United States 262nd. The day marks the name in between.International 80 14Jul · WEDNational Joey DayThe people who go by Joey get July 14, whether it is short for Joseph or the name on the birth certificate. It was never a crowded name, and it has never needed to be.International 46 14Jul · WEDNational Marco DayOn National Marco Day, we're celebrating all the amazing people named Marco! Tag your favorite Marcos and show them some love.International 11 15Jul · THUNational Donna DayRitchie Valens's single Donna reached number two twenty days after he died in a plane crash. July 15 salutes the 831,641 American girls given the name since 1880.International 95 16Jul · FRINational Emily DayThe first Emily in English is Chaucer's, a prisoner of war walking a walled garden while two knights fight over her. July 16 goes to everyone who inherited the name, which is built on a Latin word meaning rivaling.International 149 16Jul · FRINational Jerry DayJerry outranks the name it is supposed to shorten: 167,257 American boys in the 1940s against Gerald's 103,342. July 16 is the day for a nickname that four separate names, in three languages, can claim.International 91 17Jul · SATNational Cory DayNational Cory Day takes the shorter spelling, which has spent its whole American life a single letter away from Corey. The two ran close for decades before Corey pulled ahead for good, so getting it right is most of the courtesy.International 24 18Jul · SUNNational Emma DayEmma began as the clipped front of longer Germanic names like Ermengarde, and the queen who carried it to England in 1002 later married her husband's conqueror. July 18 asks no more than wishing the Emmas a happy one.United States 311 18Jul · SUNNational Brenda DayBrenda began as an Old Norse word for fire, torch and sword. The cards, the cake and the phone calls go out to the Brendas, a name America adopted fast in the 1940s and had mostly set down by the 1980s.International 82 18Jul · SUNNational Monica DayNo name among the 423 commonest for American girls in 1997 fell further over the next two years than Monica: 4,223 babies, then 2,134. July 18 gives it back to the women who carry it.International 47 18Jul · SUNNational Peyton DayIn 1998 the federal birth records counted 1,417 girls against 1,451 boys, and for eleven years the split never left that near-even band. July 18 belongs to every Peyton on both sides of it.International 11 19Jul · MONNational Barbara DayBarbara began as the Greek word for anyone who could not speak Greek. The day now set aside for it honours 32 years inside America's top ten with no year at number one: Mary took first in all eight that Barbara spent second.International 81 20Jul · TUENational Natalie DayA name that literally means Christmas gets its day: Natalie descends from dies natalis, Church Latin for Christmas Day, yet only three of 863 notable Natalies were born on December 25.International 95 20Jul · TUENational Megan DayMegan looks Welsh and probably began as Megge, an English nickname for Margaret, which makes July 20 a quiet coincidence: the church kept that date for Saint Margaret until it dropped her in 1969.International 83 21Jul · WEDNational Edward DayHenry III demolished a church and raised Westminster Abbey in its place to hold one Edward's bones, then handed the name back to the crown, where eight more kings took it. July 21 is the day for everyone else who carries it.International 23 21Jul · WEDNational Eduardo DayPortugal called its philosopher-king Duarte, its own form of this name, after his maternal ancestor Edward III of England. July 21 hands the Spanish form, Eduardo, a day of its own, and no record says who chose it.International 11 22Jul · THUNational Thomas DayDoubting Thomas is a dictionary headword, filed alongside peeping Tom and lazy Susan. July 22 greets the Thomases while plain Tom quietly disappears: thirty-one boys got it in England and Wales in 2025.International 117 22Jul · THUNational Sophia DayA Sophia was written into the British succession and died before she could wear the crown; it went to her son as George I. July 22 is the name's day, though Europe's own calendars keep Sophia elsewhere.International 116 22Jul · THUNational Tamkeen DayBahrain runs a national empowerment fund called Tamkeen. The same word is also, more quietly, a girl's name, and July 22 is built around that second, gentler life of it.International 1 23Jul · FRINational Russell DayThe Latin root for reddish-brown that gave English Russell also surfaces as Rossi in Italian, Rojas in Spanish, Roux in French and Roxas in Filipino. July 23 belongs to everyone carrying the English branch.International 23 27Jul · TUENational Nancy DayEveryone named Nancy celebrates a name America has nearly stopped giving: England and Wales registered 604 girls with it in 2025, against 265 in the United States.International 83 27Jul · TUENational Sheila DayThe word sheila may come from a holiday. Australia's national dictionary centre traces it to Shelah's Day, kept the day after St Patrick's - but National Sheila Day sits on July 27, and nothing explains why.International 34 29Jul · THUNational Harold DayCalling all Harolds! It's your day to shine on National Harold Day - embrace your unique name and celebrate with pride.International 34 30Jul · FRINational Norma DayHappy National Norma Day to all the incredible people with this name! Let's celebrate their uniqueness and honor their contributions.International 11 31Jul · SATNational Diana DayLady Diana Spencer married at St Paul's in 1981, and that year American parents registered 1,357 more daughters as Diana - the fourth-largest one-year jump in the whole federal record. July 31 is the name's own day.International 91

202608

August

22 holidays

01Aug · SUNNational Andrew DayScotland ranked Andrew third among boys' names across the fifty years to 2024, yet the name missed that year's top 100 entirely; every Andy, Drew, and Dru gets the day anyway.International 142 02Aug · MONNational Jacqueline DayJacqueline, Countess of Hainaut, was named her father's heir in 1417 and spent her life being told a woman could not rule. August 2 goes to the name she carried, which reached America through novels rather than migration.International 96 02Aug · MONNational Hugh DayCalling all Hughs! It's time to celebrate your name and uniqueness on National Hugh Day - share your stories, memories, and fun facts with us.International 11 03Aug · TUENational Michael DayMichael leads heaven's armies in Revelation, and the name went on to become the patron of soldiers, police officers and paramedics. National Michael Day marks a name that topped the United States boys' list 44 times.International 210 06Aug · FRINational Henry DayThe Social Security Administration rarely stops to comment on its own list, but in 2021 it paused for Henry: steadily rising, and last in the top ten more than a century earlier. August 6 belongs to everyone still carrying it.International 92 06Aug · FRINational Carolyn DayCarolyns get a day of their own, and fewer new ones arrive each year: 185 American girls were given the spelling in 2025, the fewest since 1907.International 81 07Aug · SATNational Valentino DayAttention all Valentinos! It's your special day - celebrate with pride and embrace the love and passion that comes with sharing a name with the iconic fashion designer.International 35 08Aug · SUNNational Liam DaySweden counts 19,995 Liams and its almanac gives them no name day at all. August 8 is the American answer to that, a date for the Irish short form of William.International 137 09Aug · MONNational Rebecca DayFor four years in the late 1830s, Welsh men in women's clothes came for the toll gates of the west after dark, calling themselves Rebecca and her daughters. National Rebecca Day honours the name they borrowed, from Genesis 24:60.International 138 10Aug · TUENational Mary DayMary was once thought too holy a name to hand to a child, and it was left to the Virgin. August 10 now marks a name that has not finished a year in first place since 1961.International 130 15Aug · SUNNational Jean DayWhen French parents hyphenated a boy's name, they almost always hyphenated a Jean: in 1940 and again in 1945 the prefix accounted for 99.5 percent of them. August 15 keeps the plain version, in both its genders.International 24 15Aug · SUNNational Philip DayDemosthenes spent a decade denouncing a Macedonian king, and the Greek name for those speeches became the English word philippic; Philip II's own name meant fond of horses. August 15 belongs to everyone who carries it.International 11 17Aug · TUENational Abel DayCalling all Abels! It's your day to shine and celebrate your unique name. Share the love with other Abels and show off your pride on National Abel Day!International 0 18Aug · WEDNational Angela DayEurope's seven days for Angela all come from saints, among them Angela Merici, who in 1535 gathered 28 women at Brescia into the first institute for educating girls. August 18, the American date, has no author at all.International 150 18Aug · WEDNational Jaden DayWhether you're a Jaden, Jaiden, Jadyn or any other variation of the name, October 1st is your day to shine! Happy National Jaden Day!International 35 22Aug · SUNNational Pamela DayPamela was invented before it was anybody's, and nobody settled how to say it: Sidney stressed the second syllable, and Fielding had a pedlar report both versions in use. August 22 takes it either way.International 125 23Aug · MONNational Levi DayLevi has appeared on every annual list of American boys' names since 1880. The day marks the name in all its spellings, from the Israelite tribe of Levi to the man who put it on a pair of jeans.International 68 24Aug · TUENational Danny DayThe year Danny Boy went on sale, American birth records held 33 boys named Danny. The name caught up, 86,640 of them in the 1950s alone, though nobody recorded who later set August 24 aside for it.International 36 26Aug · THUNational Logan DayIn October 2000 Canada announced its highest peak would carry Pierre Trudeau's name, then retreated within weeks and left Mount Logan alone. National Logan Day marks the word underneath it, Gaelic for a little hollow.International 160 26Aug · THUNational Kelly DayKelly held a place on the American boys' list for 123 unbroken years before dropping off it in 2003, by which time the girls had the name outright. August 26 gathers both sides, and the Kellis and Kellies the rankings keep apart.International 138 30Aug · MONNational Harper DayIt's National Harper Day and we're celebrating all the amazing Harpers out there - share your name with pride and be proud of who you are!International 81 31Aug · TUENational Dan DayEveryone called Dan gets the day, whichever name is on their paperwork: Dan means he judged in Hebrew, while the fuller Daniel adds the element for God and means God is my judge.International 58

202609

September

24 holidays

03Sep · FRINational Stephen DayStephen led American birth records for their first seventy years, then lost to Steven in 1950 and has not been ahead since; England and Wales still register more Stephens. September 3 belongs to the name either way.International 69 06Sep · MONNational Sabrina DayCalling all Sabrinas! It's time to celebrate your name and uniqueness on National Sabrina Day - embrace your inner magic and spread positivity!International 82 07Sep · TUENational Tatiana DayIt's National Tatiana Day - a time to celebrate all the amazing people named Tatiana and their unique qualities that make them stand out!International 34 07Sep · TUENational Regina DayIt's time to give a shout-out to all the amazing people named Regina! Happy National Regina Day, may your day be as fabulous as you are.International 23 08Sep · WEDNational David DayDavids share their date with a statue: Michelangelo's 17-foot marble went on view in Florence on September 8, 1504, a coincidence rather than a plan. The name means beloved.United States 302 13Sep · MONNational Juan DaySeptember 13 is already a name day for Juan in Spain, one of more than two dozen the calendar gives the name. The observance opens that date to Juans everywhere, whatever language they hear the name in.International 36 13Sep · MONNational Jose DayIn Spain 208,943 women carry José inside their given name, almost all of them as María José. September 13 is the day for every José, though the old one, Saint Joseph's feast, is March 19.International 35 14Sep · TUENational Noel DayCalling all Noels! It's time to celebrate your unique name and spread holiday cheer on National Noel Day with fun activities and special treats.International 58 15Sep · WEDNational Malcolm DayCalling all Malcolms! National Malcolm Day is your time to shine and showcase the greatness of this name. Let's celebrate together!International 12 17Sep · FRINational Bobby DayBobbys share a name with the British bobby: the word for a police officer is a pet form of Robert, after the Home Secretary Robert Peel. The day lands on Robert's name day in four European calendars.International 23 18Sep · SATNational Colton DayCalling all Coltons! It's your special day to celebrate and show off your unique name - let's make National Colton Day one to remember.International 24 19Sep · SUNNational Jude DayJude exists because English translators had two apostles called Judas, and one of them betrayed Jesus; the workaround won by a distance, 2,384 American boys in 2025 against 20 named Judas. September 19 is its day.International 47 20Sep · MONNational Wesley DayCelebrate National Wesley Day by honoring the Wesleys who brighten our world with their unique charm and incredible kindness!International 288 21Sep · TUENational Brittany DayBrittany is a French peninsula that has given the name to roughly 655 French girls since 1900, and to 360,673 American ones. September 21 belongs to an American name about a French place.International 58 21Sep · TUENational Hannah DayEnglish got this name late: the Bible made from the Latin prints Anna sixteen times in Hannah's own chapter and Hannah not once. The name then spent 105 years outside America's top 100, and now has a day on September 21.International 58 21Sep · TUENational Kristina DayKristinas can claim the most famous Christina of all, a Swedish queen born Kristina Augusta in 1626 and buried in St Peter's Basilica. September 21 marks the spelling American parents kept choosing.International 25 22Sep · WEDNational Dante DayCalling all Dantes! It's time to celebrate your namesake on National Dante Day. Share your love for this iconic name with pride.International 2 25Sep · SATNational John DayJohn hides a god's name inside it, and Hebrew keeps a longer form still, Yəhôḥānān. The day belongs to living Johns, not to the Baptist, whose older feast four churches keep as Johnmas.International 173 25Sep · SATNational Wade DayCalling all Wades! It's time to celebrate your unique name on National Wade Day with fun activities, memes, and trivia about famous Wades.International 11 26Sep · SUNNational Amanda DayAmanda was Latin for meant to be loved centuries before anyone used it as a name, and the first one was a stage wife of strict virtue, married young and forsaken. September 26 belongs to everyone the name has landed on since.International 140 26Sep · SUNNational Hari DayOn National Hari Day, let's show some love to all the Haris out there - share your favorite memories and photos.International 1 27Sep · MONNational AJ DayCalling all AJs! It's your day to shine and show off your unique name. Celebrate with fellow AJs and embrace your individuality on National AJ Day.United States 24 28Sep · TUENational Chris DayAlmost everyone knows a Chris, and National Chris Day is for all of them, the ones with a longer name behind it and the ones who were registered Chris and nothing else.International 118 29Sep · WEDNational Carson DayCalling all Carsons! It's time to celebrate National Carson Day and show off your unique name with pride. Let's make this day one to remember!International 35

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October

Happening now36 holidays

02Oct · SATNational Michelle DayThe Beatles ballad every Michelle inherits started as a party gag: McCartney groaning fake French in a black turtleneck, until a French teacher handed him Michelle, ma belle. October 2 is the day that comes with it.International 224 03Oct · SUNNational Kevin DayKevins owe their name to a sixth-century hermit who, legend says, held his arm out a window until a blackbird hatched an egg in his palm. October 3 asks nothing so demanding.United States 238 06Oct · WEDNational Isabella DayThe Queen Isabella quarter of 1893 was the first United States coin to show a real woman. October 6 goes to a name that is a form of a form, Latin out of Occitan out of Elizabeth.International 116 07Oct · THUNational Jonathan DayAn 1813 print shows King George III bloodied in a boxing ring, begging his opponent to stop and calling him Brother Jonathan, the figure cartoonists used for America before Uncle Sam. October 7 is the name's day.International 49 08Oct · FRINational Justin DayThe story goes that a pop star made Justin famous, but the birth files run the other way: the name hit 35,055 boys in 1988, six years before Justin Bieber was born. October 8 belongs to all of them.International 94 08Oct · FRINational Lance DayOn National Lance Day, we honor all the amazing people named Lance - strong, courageous, and always ready to conquer any challenge!International 25 10Oct · SATNational Hug a Kevin DayKevins are owed a hug on October 10, a second day for a name that already had one: the sixth-century hermit Saint Kevin, whose Glendalough monastery still stands, is kept on June 3.United States 322 11Oct · SUNNational Kimberly DayKimberly's day honors a well-traveled name: it comes from a South African diamond city named for a British earl and ranked fifth among American girls' names across the 1960s.United States 187 11Oct · SUNNational Kim DayKim went to 13,635 American babies in 1960 and to 40 in 2025, so the day falls on a name parents have very nearly stopped giving. Kipling's 1901 hero was a Kimball, not a Kimberly.International 73 12Oct · MONNational Martin DayEvery Martin carries a Roman war god in his name: Martinus comes from Mars. The day belongs to the name, not to Saint Martin of Tours, whose own feast falls on November 11.International 34 14Oct · WEDNational Ryan DayIreland registered its first four boys named Ryan in 1971, while American parents were handing the name to 139,635 boys in that same decade. October 14 belongs to the side that arrived late.United States 142 14Oct · WEDNational Katie DayIn 2004 Katie was the ninth most popular baby girls' name in England and Wales and 102nd in the United States: the same five letters, 93 places apart. October 14 belongs to all of them.International 51 14Oct · WEDNational Veronica DayIn the text that gives Veronica her name she is holding no cloth at all; she is at Pilate's hearing, and the court's answer is that a woman may not give testimony. October 14 is the day that sits on top of that gap.International 38 15Oct · THUNational Riley DayRiley is two unrelated names in one spelling: an English one from a rye clearing, and the Irish Ó Raghallaigh, whose root nobody can translate. October 15 is when both families get their turn.International 12 16Oct · FRINational Elaine DayNo one has settled what Elaine means: the strongest sources hedge between the Greek for torch and the Greek for moon. The day takes no side and celebrates the name anyway.International 73 16Oct · FRINational Eddie DayEddie has no meaning of its own. It is the front half of Edward, Edmund and Edwin, three names that mean three different things, and October 16 gives that shared syllable a day.International 71 16Oct · FRINational Trey DayTrey is a count, not a shortening: the third man in a family to carry a name, from the card word for a three. American records held no Trey until 1948, and October 16 is now his day.International 11 18Oct · SUNNational Mark DayMark ranked sixth among American boys in the 1960s and has since dropped out of the top two hundred. October 18 arrives on the far side of that fall, and it is neither of Saint Mark's two feast days.International 128 18Oct · SUNNational Ken DayMattel put the first Ken dolls on sale in March 1961, months after the name hit its American peak of 1,775 boys. Nothing in the record connects the two; October 18 is for the people, not the doll.International 36 18Oct · SUNNational Zane DayCalling all Zanes - it's time to celebrate your unique name on National Zane Day! Share your stories, memories, and love for the name that sets you apart.International 11 18Oct · SUNNational Louie DayCalling all the Louies out there! It's time to celebrate your name on National Louie Day with fun facts, memes, and a whole lot of love.International 1 19Oct · MONNational Jared DayIn 1976 Utah held about one per cent of America's baby boys and better than one in ten of its Jareds, and nobody has ever explained the spike. October 19 gives the name a day; the state stays a puzzle.International 12 20Oct · TUENational Jeff DayA coffee shop in Agawam, Massachusetts kept the day by handing two dollars from every Jeff-Fa-Fa coffee to a golf charity. October 20 is for the Jeffs, a name the federal files carried before a single Jeffrey appeared.International 96 20Oct · TUENational Lane DayCalling all Lanes! It's time to celebrate your unique name on National Lane Day - share your stories and connect with other Lane-named individuals.International 11 21Oct · WEDNational Alexander DayAlexander is a compound, alexo plus aner, defending men rather than merely defender. October 21 hands it a day in the country that kept it outside its top 100 for fifty-nine unbroken years, while Scotland never let go.International 69 21Oct · WEDNational Raymond DayIt's time to celebrate all the amazing Raymonds out there - share your love for this iconic name on National Raymond Day!International 25 21Oct · WEDNational Jameson DayCalling all Jamesons! Raise a glass on National Jameson Day and celebrate your unique name with special discounts and events. Cheers to you!International 12 22Oct · THUNational Anna DayFrozen gets the credit for Anna and moved Elsa instead: 566 American girls the year before the film, 1,140 the year after. October 22 is Anna's own day, and not one of the twenty-three name days she already keeps falls on it.International 84 22Oct · THUNational Lauren DayThe two best-known American Laurens both picked the name rather than inherited it: Betty Joan Perske and Ralph Rueben Lifshitz. October 22 is for everyone who did inherit it.International 48 22Oct · THUNational Diego DayCalling all Diegos! It's time to celebrate your unique name on National Diego Day - share your stories, photos and memories with us.International 0 24Oct · SATNational Elizabeth DayElizabeth's greeting to Mary is still said aloud daily, blessed art thou among women, the line the Hail Mary kept. October 24 goes to the living Elizabeths, not to any of the feasts that cluster in November.International 175 25Oct · SUNNational Danielle DayNational Danielle Day marks a French name that English took up late and then took up hard. Underneath the spelling is a small Hebrew sentence, dan for judge and El for God, which the name has been saying all along.International 48 25Oct · SUNNational Yasmin DayEveryone named Yasmin now has a date to mark, which the saints' calendars never gave them: not one of Europe's 21 traditional name-day lists carries the name.International 11 26Oct · MONNational Noah DayEnglish writes one name where Hebrew writes two: the man who built the ark, and one of five sisters who argued before Moses for their father's land. National Noah Day covers everyone who inherited the single spelling.International 46 28Oct · WEDNational William DayThe Williams take October 28, and the name has not once left the US top 20 for boys since annual records began in 1880. It started as a soldier's word: willo and helm, will and helmet.International 185 28Oct · WEDNational Caroline DayEvery letter of the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence passed through one Caroline, and the first comet a woman discovered was found by another. October 28 hands the day to a name that has never once been fashionable.International 104

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40 holidays

01Nov · SUNNational Mia DayCalling all Mias! Let's celebrate our unique name and bond over fun activities, discounts, and special treats on National Mia Day.International 69 01Nov · SUNNational Jayden DayJayden was invented rather than inherited, assembled from the den sound in Braden and Aidan, and it reached America's name record in 1977 on six boys. November 1 is the only day the name has.International 23 04Nov · WEDNational Melanie DayMelanie, melancholy and melanin all run back to one Greek word for black. November 4 marks the name, whose first bearer was a Roman saint lost for centuries until a life of her turned up in the Escorial in 1884.International 105 05Nov · THUNational Luke DayStar Wars is the usual explanation, yet 2014 alone produced more American boys named Luke than the four years after the film put together. The saint keeps 18 October, and November 5 is for everyone else.International 92 05Nov · THUNational Erik DayErik has held a day in the Swedish almanac since the Middle Ages, and November 5 is not that one. It is the American date for a spelling that has quietly been losing ground to Erick.International 69 06Nov · FRINational Michele DayMichele last outsold Michelle in 1955 and has finished behind it for seventy birth years since. November 6 is the calendar's entry for the spelling that lost -- not the Beatles one, and not the Italian one.International 70 07Nov · SATNational Lori DayA day for the Loris, whose name outranked the Laura it supposedly shortens: across the 1960s, 176,560 American girls were named Lori to Laura's 174,185.International 127 07Nov · SATNational Keith DayEvery Keith is named after a patch of ground in East Lothian, about a mile from Humbie, where a gable wall of the old church still stands. November 7 belongs to a name at least 437,907 American boys have carried away from it.International 59 08Nov · SUNNational Christopher DayRome cut Saint Christopher from its universal calendar in 1969 for want of evidence he ever lived. The name outlasted the saint - 554,863 American boys in the 1980s alone - and it keeps a day of its own on November 8.International 195 08Nov · SUNNational Kyle DayIn 2023 the city of Kyle, Texas gathered 1,490 people named Kyle onto one fairground, drawn from 49 of the 50 states, and still fell short of the Guinness record. November 8 asks a good deal less.International 104 08Nov · SUNNational Adam DayNational Adam Day gives November 8 to the Adams, a name almost everyone assumes they know the meaning of. Ask one how it came down through his family, then look the meaning up together and see who was right.International 58 08Nov · SUNNational Irene DayLet's celebrate all the amazing Irenes out there on National Irene Day! Share your love and appreciation for anyone with this beautiful name.International 1 09Nov · MONNational Grace DayA Lincoln clerk wrote a Grace into a will in 1530, a hundred years before the Puritans who usually get the credit for the name. November 9 belongs to the virtue name that outlasted Prudence, Charity and Temperance.International 47 09Nov · MONNational Hunter DayHunter Thompson was one of only 35 American boys given the name in 1937, years before he invented gonzo journalism. November 9 belongs to the name and to the 12,538 boys who got it in its biggest year.International 24 09Nov · MONNational Alejandro DayCalling all Alejandros - it's your day to shine! Celebrate National Alejandro Day and show off your unique name with pride.International 12 11Nov · WEDNational Timothy DayIn 1998 Irish registrars recorded 41 boys named Timothy and 41 named Tadhg, and printed the substitute and the name it had replaced on the same line. November 11 is the day the borrowed Greek name keeps.International 82 11Nov · WEDNational Chase DayChase was a word for hunting long before it was anybody's first name, and November 11 is about the people, not the pursuit. The reference books agree on what it meant and still argue about the road it took.International 80 11Nov · WEDNational Isabelle DayCalling all Isabelle's! It's time to celebrate your unique name and all the amazing people who share it on National Isabelle Day. Let's spread some love for this beautiful name!International 36 12Nov · THUNational Nathaniel DayPhilippine registrars have put Nathaniel first among newborn boys nearly every year for the past decade, while in America the same name has quietly slipped down the list. Either way, the name means God has given.International 91 14Nov · SATNational Marie DayEvery Marie already has a name day in Europe: 12 September in Czechia, 15 August in France, and 25 March in both Estonia and Norway. November 14 is the one date on that list with no calendar behind it.International 2 15Nov · SUNNational Dylan DayThe first Dylan lasted one sentence: baptized, he plunged into the sea, no wave ever broke beneath him, and his uncle killed him. November 15 belongs to the 418,679 American boys who took the name after him.International 80 16Nov · MONNational Andy DayA day for everyone called Andy, a short form so thoroughly adopted that American parents have been registering it as a first name in its own right since 1880.International 37 16Nov · MONNational Charles DayHappy National Charles Day to all the amazing people named Charles! Let's celebrate your unique name and all the wonderful things it represents.International 13 19Nov · THUNational Carla DayCarla travels between Spanish, Italian and German without changing a letter. National Carla Day takes in all three, though a Carla with Italian family may already be keeping May 9 instead.International 35 19Nov · THUNational Morgan DayCalling all Morgans! It's time to celebrate your unique name and embrace the power of being a Morgan on National Morgan Day.International 23 19Nov · THUNational Alina DayAlina entered Finland's almanac in 1872 as a fashionable name, and that calendar is legal property: in 2000 the Supreme Court left a magazine owing 60,440.26 markkaa for reprinting it. November 19 has no owner at all.International 2 20Nov · FRINational Gary DayOnly 115 American boys were named Gary the year a casting director pinned it on a Montana cowboy extra. Thirty years later it was the ninth most common boys' name in the country, and it now has a day on November 20.International 46 21Nov · SATNational Dennis DayPeter Abelard was driven out of France in the 1100s for pointing out that the two men called Denis were not the same man. The name survived the argument, spent 51 unbroken years in America's top 100, and now has November 21.International 48 22Nov · SUNNational Nathan DayOn National Nathan Day, let's give a shout out to all the Nathans out there! Show some love for those with this awesome name.International 34 22Nov · SUNNational Amelia DayIt's time to celebrate all the Amelias out there on National Amelia Day - a day dedicated to honoring and appreciating this beautiful name!International 11 23Nov · MONNational Margaret DaySt Margaret of Antioch's voice was among those St Joan of Arc was said to have heard, and in 1969 Rome removed her feast on the grounds that it is doubtful she existed. November 23 keeps the name's day.International 57 24Nov · TUENational Oliver DayOliver Cromwell made his own first name rare in England, and it later spent 105 straight years outside America's top 100 boys' names. National Oliver Day catches it at number three.International 68 26Nov · THUNational Eric DayThe first Eric Fest, at a Wisconsin distillery in 2025, could not decide what to do about the Eriks and the Aricks. Its listing promised to settle that later, 'most likely by an Eric committee.' November 26 is the day it marked.International 115 26Nov · THUNational Alexis DayThe first famous Alexis was a man, a comic poet at Athens said to have written 245 plays and to have died on stage at 106 while being crowned. November 26 marks a name that has now crossed sexes twice.International 103 27Nov · FRINational Lawrence DayIt's time to show some love to all the Lawrences out there on National Lawrence Day!International 23 28Nov · SATNational Alan DayFour origins are on offer for Alan, deer, rock, a nomadic Iranian people, or Alexander worn down to its middle, and the reference works back none of them. November 28 gives the name a day regardless.International 34 28Nov · SATNational Madison DayIn Splash, Tom Hanks's character says it out loud: Madison is not a name. The century before that film produced 22 American girls called Madison, and 2001 alone produced 22,166.International 34 28Nov · SATNational Cole DayCalling all Coles! It's time to celebrate your name and uniqueness on National Cole Day. Share your stories and connect with other Coles around the world!International 23 28Nov · SATNational Patrick DayCalling all Patricks! Celebrate your special day with pride and don't forget to treat yourself to something fun - you deserve it!International 11 29Nov · SUNNational Evan DayEvan Evans and Ieuan Fardd were one man, a Cardiganshire scholar who spent decades copying Welsh manuscripts under an English name and a Welsh one. The Anglicised half gets November 29.International 68

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December

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02Dec · WEDNational Katherine DayThe saint behind the name was struck from the Roman calendar in 1969 for want of authentic biographical material, and put back in 2002. The 2 December observance keeps the name either way.International 116 03Dec · THUNational Lisa DayLisa held the top spot among American girls' names for eight straight years, and after 1973 it never touched the top five again. December 3 gives the name an American day; Sweden's almanac has had one all along.International 126 03Dec · THUNational Isaac DayEvery Isaac gets a day, however the name is spelled. England and Wales registered five spellings of it in 2025: Isaac, Issac, Ishaq, Isaak and Izaak.International 68 03Dec · THUNational Heather DayEvery December 3, people online hand someone a sweater, because a 2020 song's opening line names that exact date. The ritual has returned every year since, and it still baffles anyone who meets it cold.International 35 03Dec · THUNational Ronald DayNational Ronald Day keeps December 3, a date four other countries dispute: Sweden's almanac gives Ronald May 16, Norway August 9, Estonia July 16 and Austria August 20. Of 21 name-day calendars, none puts him in December.International 23 03Dec · THUNational Dorothy DayEveryone credits The Wizard of Oz, and the numbers refuse it twice: the 1900 novel landed on a name already climbing, and the 1939 film on one that had fallen for fifteen straight years. December 3 marks the name, not the movie.International 11 03Dec · THUNational Harley DayCalling all Harleys! It's National Harley Day and we're celebrating all the amazing people who share this awesome name. Ride on!International 11 05Dec · SATNational Devon DayCalling all Devons! It's time to celebrate your unique name and all the amazing people who share it on National Devon Day.International 11 05Dec · SATNational Johnny DayShow a Johnny Rockets a driver's licence reading Johnny and the milkshake was free; the chain ran it in 2023 and again the following December. December 5 belongs to the name itself, not to anyone famous carrying it.International 11 06Dec · SUNNational Travis DayThe surname began at a toll: in Old French traverser meant to cross, and a Travis was the man taking the money where a road met a river. December 6 hands the name to everyone carrying it now, and the day's own origin is blank.International 68 07Dec · MONNational Judith DayIn France, Judith is having the best year of its recorded life; in America it has gone from 25,214 girls in 1943 to 344. December 7 gives the name a day that no European calendar had claimed.International 12 08Dec · TUENational Simon DaySimon topped the male names of Roman-era Palestine, ahead of Joseph, Lazarus and Judas. December 8 is its day now, in a year when England and Wales registered just 63 boys with the name.International 34 09Dec · WEDNational Blake DayOn National Blake Day, let's celebrate the amazing people named Blake in our lives - from friends to family and everything in between!International 23 10Dec · THUNational Derek DayThe day belongs to every Derek, Derrick and Deryck. So, in a roundabout way, does the steel derrick over an oil well: it is named for a Tyburn hangman who carried the same Germanic name.International 48 10Dec · THUNational Corey DayA six-year-old on NBC in 1968 took the name from 466 American boys to 4,924 in two years; the show's creator said Black children finally had a role model. December 10 is the day that name kept.International 34 12Dec · SATNational Clayton DayIt's time to honor all the amazing Claytons out there on National Clayton Day - share your love and appreciation for these awesome individuals!International 12 18Dec · FRINational Deborah DayThe Hebrew phrase attached to Deborah reads as wife of Lappidoth or as woman of torches, and translators have never settled which. December 18 hands the name on to the people carrying it now.International 126 18Dec · FRINational Jeremy DayThe King James translators printed Jeremy the prophet at Matthew 2:17, and reached for the same spelling again later in the gospel. December 18 belongs to a name most people take for modern.International 80 19Dec · SATNational Harry DayHarry was never short for Henry - it was how the English said Henry, and every Harris and Harrison surname is the evidence. December 19 gives the name a day, in a language that also made Old Harry a name for the Devil.International 34 20Dec · SUNNational Greg DayGregory started as a Greek word for staying awake, and the pope who took it put it on the calendar the world still dates by. December 20 belongs to Greg, the clipped form; it was the first date France ever wrote in that calendar.International 105 20Dec · SUNNational Steven DayNational Steven Day is really about the v in the middle, the one people keep turning into a ph. It is not a modern American shortcut: English has been spelling the name this way since the Middle Ages.United States 34 21Dec · MONNational Lee DayNational Lee Day is for everyone who carries a name that turns up in families with nothing else in common. Trace your own back a generation, while there is still someone around who remembers how it was spelled.International 46 21Dec · MONAnne and Samantha DayMark Anne and Samantha Day by celebrating the strong, inspiring women in your life - let's honor their achievements and their influence!United States 24 22Dec · TUENational Betty DayBetty is only a pet form of Elizabeth, and for 29 straight years American parents registered more of the nickname than the name, three and a half to one in 1930. December 22 is the day the pet form kept for itself.United States 58 22Dec · TUENational Ashton DayIt's time to honor all the amazing Ashtons in your life! Celebrate National Ashton Day with love, laughter, and good times.International 11 23Dec · WEDNational Laura DayNational Laura Day carries a name meaning laurel, which has been turning up in sonnets and film titles for centuries. Put the 1944 film on and stay for the song it left behind.United States 81 23Dec · WEDNational Nicole DayA fourteenth-century Nicole dismantled every proof that the Earth stands still, then wrote that he believed it did anyway. National Nicole Day belongs to a name France rebuilt from the Greek for victory of the people.United States 81 23Dec · WEDNational Forest DayCalling all people named Forest - it's time to honor your namesake on National Forest Day.International 24 25Dec · FRINational Joshua DayOne Joshua talked San Francisco into taking his own currency, and the 1870 census duly listed his occupation as Emperor. December 25 is the day every other Joshua gets.United States 137 25Dec · FRINational Eva DayGreek translators of Genesis could not decide what to do with this name: at one verse they render it Zoe, Life, and four lines later they simply spell it out, Eua. America keeps its day on December 25.United States 80 27Dec · SUNNational Samuel DayNational Samuel Day asks nothing of you: no ceremony, nothing to buy, nowhere to be. Samuel, Sam and Sammy are counted as three separate names everywhere else, and the day is where they come back together.United States 68 27Dec · SUNNational Martha DayAramaic for the lady, the mistress, the name Martha reached English only after the Reformation. Americans keep December 27 for it, while the Roman Calendar keeps July 29, shared since 2021 with Mary and Lazarus.United States 34 27Dec · SUNAbigail DayEnglish borrowed Abigail back as a common noun, and Merriam-Webster still prints it: a lady's personal maid. December 27 gives the day to the women rather than the job.United States 23 28Dec · MONNational Tim DayTim's day falls on December 28, and no European calendar agrees: the twenty name days that honour this name across twelve countries land on thirteen other dates, and Sweden keeps December 28 for Benjamin.United States 23 29Dec · TUENational Paula DayIn February 1963 a song called Hey Paula spent three weeks atop the Billboard chart, and that year American parents named 10,156 girls Paula, more than in any year before or since. December 29 marks the long decline after.United States 46 30Dec · WEDNational Cheryl DayNational Cheryl Day is a nod to a name that filled mid-century classrooms and is hardly given to babies now. Credit usually goes to a Rose Queen who became an actress, and the strongest word the sources will use is seems.United States 80 31Dec · THUNational Andrea DayThe same six letters are a boy's name in Italy and a girl's name in America: 3,143 Italian boys took it in 2024 against 1,628 American girls. December 31 hands the day to both readings.United States 46