Church name days are not at all analogous to an ordinary birthday. On the day of baptism, the child receives a name according to the calendar, in accordance with the date of birth. To find out which heavenly patron corresponds to the birthday of July, just look at the Orthodox calendar.
Features of church name days
Most parents choose a name even before the baby is born and cannot relate it to a specific date. However, according to Orthodox teaching, a name is not just a beautiful word, but also a symbol that means the heavenly patron of a person. In the church calendar every day one or another saint is honored and. according to tradition, a newly baptized child is named after him.
Adults can also choose a name day. Usually it is the date closest to the birthday. When a person is baptized with a name that is not in the calendar, parents are offered to choose a consonant version or full form. For example, Alena will be offered to be christened Elena, Oksana - Xenia, and Yana - Ivan. It is not forbidden to accept a name different from that which was given at birth, as people who receive the rite of baptism in adulthood often do.
Birthday people of July
According to the Orthodox calendar, in July the name days are celebrated by carriers of 31 male and 19 female names. Ivan is most often found in the July calendar: saints and martyrs with this name are marked 8 times. It is worth considering that the name of the child is given in honor of a certain heavenly patron. For example, a boy born on July 2 may be named Ivan in honor of John the Hermit of Palestine, and one born on July 7 will be baptized in honor of John the Baptist.
- On July 1, the name day is celebrated by men with the names Sergey, Alexander, Nikanor, Victor, Vasily, Leonty.
- July 2 - Fadey and Ivan;
- July 3 - Naum, Afanasy, Andrey, Nikolay, Gleb, Ivan, Victor;
- July 4 - Julian, Georgy, Alexey, Pavel, Terenty, Maxim, Nikita, Nikolay, Ivan, Pavel;
- July 5 - Vasily, Gregory, Galaktion, Fedor, Gabriel, Gennady;
- July 6 - Fedor, Joseph, Alexander, Alexey, Anton, Peter, German, Cornelius, Artemy, Mitrofan;
- July 7 - Ivan, Nikita, Anton, Yakov;
- July 8 - Semyon, Konstantin, Vasily, Fedor, David, Denis;
- July 9 - Denis, Ivan, Pavel, Tikhon, Georgy;
- July 10 - Alexander, Samson, Peter, Ivan, Georgy, Vladimir;
- July 11 - Pavel, Sergey, Vasily, Gregory, Ivan, Joseph;
- July 12 - Peter, Gregory, Pavel;
- July 13 - Yakov, Stepan, Fadey, Peter, Mikhail, Andrey, Ivan, Grigory, Matvey;
- July 14 - Peter, Tikhon, Andrey, Mikhail, Ivan, Konstantin, Kuzma, Lev, Alexey, Arkady;
- July 15 - Arseny;
- July 16 - Philip, Anatoly, Mikhail, Vasily, Konstantin, Mark, Georgy, Gerasim, Ivan;
- July 17 - Georgy, Mikhail, Dmitry, Bogdan, Fedot, Anatoly, Efim, Gleb, Andrey;
- July 18 - Gennady, Vasily, Sergey, Stepan, Afanasy;
- July 19 - Arkhip, Valentin, Fedor, Alexey, Gleb, Vasily, Anton, Innokenty, Anatoly, Efim;
- July 20 - German, Pavel, Sergey;
- July 21 - Nikolay, Alexander, Fedor, Dmitry;
- July 22 - Alexander, Fedor, Mikhail, Kirill, Ivan, Konstantin, Andrey;
- July 23 - Alexander, Anton, Georgy, Daniel, Leonty, Peter;
- July 24 - Arkady;
- July 25 - Gabriel, Mikhail, Ivan, Arseny, Fedor;
- July 26 - Julian, Anton, Gabriel, Stepan;
- July 27 - Irakli, Stepan, Peter, Konstantin, Ivan, Nikolay;
- July 28 - Vladimir, Peter, Vasily;
- July 29 - Fedor, Yakov, Ivan, Peter, Pavel;
- July 30 - Leonid;
- July 31 - Afanasy, Stepan, Leonty, Emelyan, Kuzma, Miron.
There are significantly fewer female names in the Orthodox calendar. However, the girl is often called the female form of the male name of the patron saint. For example, Alexandra and Victoria may well celebrate their name day on July 1.
A very unusual date is July 24th. Princess Olga became the patron saint of this day - this is a rare case of the penetration of a Scandinavian name into the Orthodox list. By the way, Saint Olga will be the patroness of not only Ol, but also Len, who were born on that day: the princess was baptized by Elena. The birthday girls of the month are:
- July 3 - Inna and Rimma;
- July 4 - Vasilisa, Anastasia;
- July 5 - Ulyana;
- July 14 - Angelina;
- July 17 - Maria, Martha, Anastasia, Alexandra;
- July 18 - Elizabeth, Anna, Varvara;
- July 19 - Ulyana, Martha;
- July 20 - Evdokia;
- July 24 - Olga, Elena;
- July 25 - Maria, Veronica;
- July 29 - Valentina, Alevtina, Yulia;
- July 30 - Marina, Margarita, Veronica.
According to modern rules, it is not necessary to name the baby strictly by the date of birth. Some people prefer to choose a patron by the date of baptism, because it is on this day that the child begins a new, spiritual life, which is much more important than physical.
