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In 1901 a comprehensive modernisation was made to make the list up to date with current names. The monopoly on almanacs, held by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, expired in 1972 and so did the official name-day list. Competing name-day lists began to emerge, but the official list was still in general use until 1986 when the consensus of a ...
Name days in Sweden; Swedish name day list of 2001 This page was last edited on 2 October 2023, at 01:36 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
A work group, consisting of the Swedish Academy, publishers and others, agreed to adopt a new name day list in 2001, very similar to the old one but with more names. It is intended that this list will be updated every 15 years. In the year of 2022 seven new names will be added. In Sweden, it is not uncommon for people to celebrate their name day.
The original list was the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, but many changes were made to reflect the present-day usage of names. The name day is commonly of less importance than birthdays to Czech people. The celebration can be held together with friends or co-workers of the same name and in this way, it can grow in size and "importance".
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Icelandic is a special case within the Germanic languages, maintaining only the Sun and Moon (sunnudagur and mánudagur respectively), while dispensing with the names of the explicitly heathen gods in favour of a combination of numbered days and days whose names are linked to pious or domestic routine (föstudagur, "Fasting Day" and laugardagur ...
This is a calendar of name days in Greece. [1] Some of the names below are linked to the original saints or martyrs from which they originate. January
An annual fast day in Judaism which commemorates the anniversary of a number of disasters in Jewish history. (see description) Double Ninth Festival: Chung Yeung Festival: China, Vietnam, Korea: A traditional Chinese holiday observed on the 9th day of the 9th month in the Chinese calendar. October 10: Double Ten Day: National Celebration Day