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In Greece, name days are celebrated instead of birthdays. Children are typically named after the patron saint of their region with the eldest son often being named after his paternal grandfather and the oldest daughter after her paternal grandmother. Because of this tradition, you will often find cousins with the same name. The name day is the feast day of the saint after which a child was named. Also visit the Greek festivals pages.

January Greek Name Days
January 1 - Vassilis, Vasileios, Vaso
January 6 - Theofania, Theofanis, Fotis, Fanis, Fotini
January 7 - Synaksi Ioannos, Ioannis, Yannis
January 8 - Dominikis
January 10 - Grigorios
January 11 - Theodosios, Thodoris
January 17 - Antonios, Antonis, Antonios
January 18 - Athanasios & Kurillos, Thanassis
January 19 - Makarios, Makarios
January 20 - Eythimios, Thimios
January 21 - Maximos, Massimos/ Neofytos / Agnis
January 22 - Anastasios / Timothetos, Tassos
January 23 - Agathagellos
January 24 - Xenis, Xeni
January 25 - Grigorios Theologos / Margarita, Grigoris, Grigorios
January 26 - Xenofontos
January 29 - Ignatios
January 30 - Trion Ierarxon
January 31 - Kyros & Ioannos Aaron

February Greek Name Days
February 1 - Trifonas
February 2 - Ypapanti tos Sotiros
February 5 - Agathis
February 6 - Voskolos, Fotios
February 7 - Parthenios
February 8 - Zaxarios, Stratilatos
February 9 - Nikiforos
February 10 - Haralampos, Mpampis, Zinonos, Hara, Hariklia
February 11 - Vasios
February 12 - Meltios
February 13 - Akula, Priskillis
February 14 - Ayxentios, Valentini
February 15 - Zaharias, Eusevios
February 17 - Theodoros, Tironos, Poulkerias
February 18 - Leontos Romis
February 20 - Agathonos, Vissarionos
February 22 - Anthi
February 23 - Polykarpos
February 25 - Tarasios
February 26 - Porfurios

March Greek Name Days
March 1 - Marias Aigyptias, Eudokia
March 2 - Euthalias
March 3 - Kleonikos
March 5 - Kononos
March 7 - Laurentios
March 8 - Theofulaktos
March 16 - Xristodoulos
March 17 - Alexios, Alexis
March 18 - Kurillos
March 19 - Xristodoulos, Xrysanthos
March 21 - Iakovos
March 25 - Annunciation Day - Evangelos, Vangelis, Evangelia, Vangelio, Eva, Euagelismos tis Theotokos
March 31 - Ypatios

April Greek Name Days
April 6 - Eutyxios
April 15 - Leonidas
April 23 - Georgios (Yorgos) - Georgia. If during Lent, it moves to second day after Easter.
April 24 - Elisabet
April 25 - Marcos

May Greek Name Days
May 2 - Zoodochos Pigis
May 3 - Timotheos
May 4 - Pelagias
May 5 - Eirinis, Irini
May 6 - Serafim
May 7 - Akakios
May 9 - Christoforos
May 10 - Simonos
May 11 - Kurillos & Methodos
May 13 - Sergios, Sergios, Glykerias, Glykeria
May 15 - Paxomios
May 17 - Andronikos
May 18 - Ioulias, Ioulia
May 19 - Menandrios
May 21 - Kosta, Konstantinos, Eleni, Thina
May 27 - Ioannos Rosos
May 28 - Tis Analipseos
May 29 - Theodosias
May 30 - Isaakios

June Greek Name Days
June 2 - Nikiforos
June 4 - Marthas & Marias, Martha
June 5 - Dorotheos
June 7 - Sevastianis
June 8 - Kalliopis
June 11 - Vartholomaios / Varnava
June 22 - Zinonos
June 29 - Petros, Paulos, Petros, Pavlos
June 30 - Sunaksi ton 12 Apostolon, Apostolis, Apostolos

July Greek Name Days
July 1 - Kosmas, Damianos
July 3 - Yakinthos, Iakinthos (the Cretan Saint Valentine)
July 7 - Kuriakis, Kiriaki
July 8 - Theofilos, Prokopios
July 11 - Olga, Olgas, Eufimias
July 12 - Veronikis
July 14 - Nikodimos
July 16 - Athinogenoss
July 17 - Marina, Marinas
July 20 - Elias (Ilias)
July 22 - Marias Magdalinis, Magdalini, Magda, Magdalena, Lena
July 26 - Paraskevi, Parakseuis
July 27 - Panteleimonos, Pantelis
July 29 - Kallinikos
July 31 - Iosif Arimatheais, Iosif, Sifi
August Greek Name Days
August 6 - Sotiris, Sotiria
August 7 - Asterios
August 15 - Assumption Day - Maria, Marios, Despina, Panagiotis, Panayotis, Koimisi tis Theotokos, Thespina
August 24 - Kosmas
August 25 - Titos
August 26 - Andrianos, Natalias, Nathalia, Natalia
August 27 - Fanourios
August 30 - Alexandros, Alexandra

September Greek Name Days
September 1 - Simeon
September 3 - Anthimos
September 4 - Moisi, Ermionis
September 5 - Zaxarios, Zacharias
September 8 - Gennisi tis Theotokos
September 9 - Ioakeim, Annis
September 11 - Evathia
September 13 - Kornilios, Aristeidos
September 14 - Stavros, Stavroula, Ypsosi tos Timios Stauros
September 15 - Nikita, Nikitas
September 16 - Eyfimias
September 17 - Pisteos, Elpida, Elpidas, Agapi, Agapis, Sofia, Sofias
September 18 - Eumenios, Ariadnis
September 20 - Eustathios, Stathis
September 22 - Fokas
September 23 - Sullipsi Prodromos
September 24 - Theklas
September 25 - Eufrosinis
September 26 - Metastasi Ioannos Euaggelistos
September 27 - Kallistratos
September 29 - Kiriakos

October Greek Name Days
October 1 - Ananios, Pomanos, Melodos
October 2 - Kuprianos, Iosstiounis
October 3 - Dionisios, Dionisos
October 4 - Ierotheos
October 5 - Xaritinis
October 6 - Thomas
October 7 - Poluxronios
October 8 - Peladias
October 10 - Eulampios
October 15 - Loskianos
October 18 - Loska, Loskas
October 19 - Kleopatras
October 20 - Artemios, Gerasimos, Kefallinias, Yerasimos
October 21 - Sokratous, Sokrates, Sokratis
October 23 - Iakovos
October 24 - Sevatianis
October 26 - Dimitrios, Dimitris, Dimitria
October 27 - Nestoros
October 28 - Agias Skepis
October 30 - Xaritinis, Zinovios

November Greek Name Days
November 1 - Anarron, Kosma, Damianos, Anargiros, Argiris, Kosmas, Damianos
November 8 - Michalis, Angelos, Angela, Angeliki, Stamatis, Stamos
November 9 - Nektarios
November 11 - Minas, Viktoros
November 13 - Ioannos, Xrysostomos
November 14 - Filippos, Philippos
November 16 - Mathaios
November 18 - Platonos
November 21 - Eisodia tis Theotokis, Maria
November 22 - Filimonos
November 25 - Merkourios, Aikaterini, Katerina
November 26 - Stulianos, Stelios, Stella, Stylianos
November 27 - Nathanail
November 30 - Andrea, Andreas

December Greek Name Days
December 1 - Theoklitos
December 2 - Muropis
December 4 - Varvara
December 5 - Savvas
December 6 - Nikolaos, Nikos
December 7 - Amvrosios
December 9 - Anna, Agias Annis
December 12 - Spiridon, Spiros
December 13 - Eustratios, Loskias, Stratos, Stratis, Lukia
December 15 - Eleftherios, Lefteris, Eleutherios
December 17 - Daniel, Dionysios, Zakunthos, Diosnysos
December 18 - Sevastionos, Zois
December 19 - Aglais
December 20 - Ignatios
December 21 - Themistokleous, Ioulia
December 22 - Anastasias, Anastasia
December 24 - Eugenias, Evyenia
December 25 - Christmas Day - Kristos, , Manolis, Emmanouela
December 26 - Theotokos, Manolis, Manuella
December 27 - Stefanos, Stephania


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