As soon as parents find out about the imminent birth of a baby, one of the first questions is the problem of choosing a name for the child. After all, a name can influence the future life, fate, character of a child. Before choosing a name for a future baby, parents need to determine the most important aspect for them - tradition, fashion or church calendar.
Instructions
Step 1
Previously, children were given a name according to the month's word - the church calendar or Christmastide. The child was named after the saint, whose memory falls on his birthday according to the calendar. It was believed that the saint in whose honor the baby was named would become a guardian angel for a newborn and would be a protector and savior for him throughout his life. That is why birthdays are sometimes called name days, although the tradition of naming a baby on Christmas time is not often observed.
Step 2
If the child was born on the day when according to the calendar there is no commemoration of the saints of his gender, then according to church customs, you can choose the name of the saint who is commemorated eight days after the birth of the baby or at baptism, that is, on the 40th day after that, how the baby was born. According to church traditions, a baby is baptized on this day. Sometimes it happens that the saint, in whose honor the parents chose a name for the child on Christmastide, is commemorated on the calendar several times a year, or saints with the same name are commemorated on different days, then the days of these saints close to the child's birthday are considered his name day, and other days during the year are small name days.
Step 3
There are very few Slavic names in Christmastide, as a rule, the names of the calendar have Hebrew, Latin and Greek roots. In our time, the birth of a child is registered initially at the registry office, and the name of the baby is also recorded there. But it happens that the name given to the child is absent in the Christmastide. Then, at baptism, the priest translates the name into the Church Slavonic form.
