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Calendar of the Bulgarian
name days
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01
January - Vasil,
Vasilena
02 January - Silvia
06 January - Jordan,
Jordanka, Boyana,
Boyan
07 January - Ivan,
Ioan, Ivailo,
Ivanka, Ioana,
Ivaila, Ivet
11 January -
Teodosii, Bogdan,
Bogomil, Bogomila
12 January - Tatiana

17 January - Anton,
Andon, Dona, Donka
18 January - Atanas,
Atanaska, Jivko,
Traian
20 January - Evtim
21 January - Maxim
24 January - Ksenia
25 January - Grigor
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February -
Trifon, Veselin,
Radko, Veselina,
Rada, Radka
02 February -
Radost, Radostina
03 February - Simeon
06 February - Svetla
10 February -
Haralampi
13 February - Evlogi
14
February -
Valentin, Valya,
Valyo
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March - Evdokia,
Marta, Martina,
Boiko Martouvane
02 March - Milen,
Milena
03 March - Todor,
Dora, Teodora,
Bojidar, Bojidara
04 March - Gerasim
05 March - Adrian,
Adriana
06 March - Krasimir,
Krasimira, whom
people call
‘decoration of the
world’.also Bella,
Miroslav and
Miroslava
09 March - Mladen -
Mladentzi
(All Saints Day)
10 March - Galya,
Galyo, which means
‘black, tawny’,
Galina
14 March - Venelin
22 March - Rosen,
Rositsa
23 March - Lidia,
Lydia. “Lida” in the
folk beliefs is a
“spoilt lass”
24 March - Zahari,
Zaharina. The name
comes from Hebrew
and means ‘God
remembers’
25 March -
Evangelina, Dobri,
Dobrina, Dobrinka,
Mariana, Blagovest,
Blaguna
28 March - Albena,
Boika
31 March - Veniamin
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April - Strahil
11 April -
Stanislav,
Stanislava, Lazar
12 April - Stela,
Zornica, Denica,
Ralica
14 April - Martin 
17 April - Roberta
18 April - Viktor,
Viktoria, Vesela
21 April - Jelio
20 April - The day
of the flowers
(Sunday before
Easter)
(Many people named
after flowers or
plants will
celebrate their
namedays on this
Sunday)
27 April - Velichka,
Velichko, Veliko,
Velika, Svetla
(Easter)
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May - Maia
02 May - Boris,
Boriana, Borislav,
Borislava
04 May - Toma,
Tomislav (Sunday
after Easter)
05 May - Irina,Mira
06 May - Georgi,
Gergana
10 May - Simona
11 May - Kiril,
Metodi
12 May - Iskra
21 May - Konstantin,
Elena, Kostadin,
Stanimir, Stoian,
Dicho, Lenko
30 May - Emilia
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June - Panaiot,
Ruslan
05 June - Doroteia
07 June -
Valeria,Valeri
15 June - Avgustin,
Avgustina
17 June - Asparuh,
Krum, Asen, Chavdar,
Rumiana, Rumen,
Momchil, Desislava
20 June - Biser
21 June - Iavor,
Iasen
24 June - Enio,
Ianaki, Biliana,
Diliana, Ianita
26 June - David
29 June -
Name day of
everyone named
Peter, Penka,
Kamen, Pencho,
Peyo, Pesho,
Petran/a; also
Assen, Assya,
Apostol, Kroum,
Chavdar
30 June -
Pavlyovden
(Saint Paul’s
Day) - Name day
of everyone
named Pavel,
Pavlina, Polya,
Polina, Apostol
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July - Damian,
Damiana
07 July - Nedialka
11 July - Olga
15 July - Vladimir
16 July - Iulia
17 July - Marina,
Marin
18 July - Emil,
Emilian
20 July - Ilia,
Ilko, Iliana, Ilina,
Bojana
22 July - Magdalena,
Miglena
25 July - Ana, Iana
26 July - Paraskeva
27 July - Pancho
29 July - Kalin
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August - Zdravko,
Zdravka
08 August - Emilia
15 August - Maria,
Margarita
20 August - Samuil
26 August - Adrian,
Natalia
29 August - Anastas
30 August -
Aleksandar, Aleko
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September - Antim
05 September -
Zahari, Elisaveta
14 September -
Stavri
16 September -
Ludmila
17 September -
Sofia, Viara,
Nadejda, Lubov
25 September -
Sergei
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October - Dionisii
14 October - Penka,
Petko
18 October - Zlata,
Zlatka, Zlatko
19 October - Ioan,
Ioana
26
October -
Dimitar, Mitko,
Dimitrina
27 October - Nestor
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November - Mihail,
Rangel, Raina, Raia,
Raika, Mihaela,
Angel, Milcho
11 November - Mina,
Minka, Viktor,
Viktoria
14 November - Filip,
Filipa, Filio
16 November - Matei
24 November -
Ekaterina, Katerina,
Katia, Katina, Iasna
26 November -
Stilian
30 November - Andrei
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01
December - Naum
04 December -
Varvara
05 December - Sava,
Elisaveta
06
December -
Nikola, Nikolai, Nina
09 December - Anna,
Anushka, Nusha 
12 December - Darina
17 December -
Danail, Daniela,
Dana
20
December -
Ognian, Plamen,
Plamena
24 December -
Evgenia
25 December -
Hristo, Hristina
26 December - Iosif
27 December - Stefan,
Conio, Stoicho,
Stoimen, Stefka
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