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Name days in Bulgaria are name days associated with Eastern Orthodox saints. Some names can be celebrated on more than one day.

According to the tradition, guests are supposed to come uninvited and the person who has the celebrated name is supposed to be prepared to treat everyone. Today people prefer to invite their guests at home or at a bar or a restaurant. The celebrations are similar to those of birthdays, but usually the food, the music and the feel is somewhat more traditional, and sometimes even religious.

Easter related name days

• First Saturday of the Great Lent: Todor(a), Teodor(a), Dora, Bozhidar
• Lazarus Saturday: Lazar, Lazarina
• Palm Sunday (Eastern Churches): all flower-related names, such as Bilyan(a), Tsveta, Tsvetin(a), Tsvetelin(a), Tsvetan(a), Tsvyatko, Margarita, Liliya, Lilyan(a), Kalina, Violeta, Yavor, Zdravko, Zjumbjul, Nevena, Kameliya, Temenuzhka, Ralitsa, etc.
• Easter Sunday (Eastern Churches): Velichko, Velichka, Veliko, Velin, Vela
• Thomas Sunday: Toma, Tomislav, Tomislava
• Ascension Sunday: Spas, Spaska

References

1. Brien, Joanne O.; Palmer, Martin (2007). The Atlas of Religion. University of California Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-520-24917-2. There are over 220 million Orthodox Christians worldwide.

External links

• Incomplete Name Calendar
• Official calendar of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (in Bulgarian language)

• Name days
• Bulgarian traditions
• Festivals in Bulgaria
• Slavic given names