Name Days


Calendar of the Bulgarian name days

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


01 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


01 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


06 April – Strahil
11 April – Stanislav, Stanislava, Lazar
12 April – Stela, Zornica, Denica, Ralica
14 April – Martin Flower Daisy
17 April – Roberta
18 April – Viktor, Viktoria, Vesela
21 April – Jelio
20 April – The day of the flowers (Sunday before Easter) depending on the year.
(Many people named after flowers or plants will celebrate their namedays on this Sunday)
27 April – Velichka, Velichko, Veliko, Velika, Svetla (Easter)


01 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


04 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


01 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


01 August – Zdravko, Zdravka
08 August – Emilia
15 August – Maria, Margarita
20 August – Samuil
26 August – Adrian, Natalia, Natasha
29 August – Anastas
30 August – Aleksandar, Aleko


03 September – Antim
05 September – Zahari, Elisaveta
14 September – Stavri
16 September – Ludmila
17 September – Sofia, Viara, Nadejda, Lubov
25 September – Sergei


03 October – Dionisii
14 October – Penka, Petko
18 October – Zlata, Zlatka, Zlatko
19 October – Ioan, Ioana
26 October – Dimitar, Mitko, Dimitrina
27 October – Nestor


08 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


01 December – Naum

17 December – Douglas