I recently discovered a new holiday. Europeans celebrate their Name Day just like they would celebrate a birthday. Birthdays tend to be more intimate affairs with just immediate family while your Name Day is more widely celebrated. Logistically this makes sense. Obviously more people can remember your first name whereas they might not be able to remember your birth date.
Common first names are assigned to a particular day and are generally based on religious figures with that same name. For example, someone with the name Peter or some derivative of Peter would have their Name Day on the day that St. Peter died.
Today's Name day names are Ingrid and Emmerich. So Happy Name Day to anyone with those unfortunate names. If we name our little girl Sabine, her name day would be August 29th.
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