In the

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...

, each day of the year, except national holidays, corresponds to a

personal name A personal name, or full name, in onomastic terminology also known as prosoponym (from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον / ''prósōpon'' - person, and ὄνομα / ''onoma'' - name), is the set of names by which an individual person is known ...

. People celebrate their name day (" svátek"—or more formally " jmeniny", but that term isn't usually used) on the date corresponding to their own given name. In the past, parents were not allowed to choose just any name for a child. This has changed, although it is still common to choose the name from the name day "calendar", and any highly unusual name has to be approved by a special office. The original list was the

Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...

calendar of saints The calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint. The word "feast" in this context d ...

, but many changes were made to reflect the present-day usage of names. The name day is commonly of less importance than birthdays to

Czech people The Czechs ( cs, Češi, ; singular Czech, masculine: ''Čech'' , singular feminine: ''Češka'' ), or the Czech people (), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, c ...

. The celebration can be held together with friends or co-workers of the same name and in this way, it can grow in size and "importance".

January

New Year's Day New Year's Day is a festival observed in most of the world on 1 January, the first day of the year in the modern Gregorian calendar. 1 January is also New Year's Day on the Julian calendar, but this is not the same day as the Gregorian one. Wh ...

# Karina #

Radmila Radmila is a popular given female name in Serbia. It is derived from the Slavic words ''rada'' (the feminine of ''rade'' meaning "happiness") and ''mila'' ("sweet"). Nicknames Rada, Radka, Radushka, Radica, Lala, Mila, Mi Famous bearers *Radm ...

# Diana #

Dalimil The ''Chronicle of Dalimil'' ( cs, Dalimilova kronika; Kronika tak řečeného Dalimila) is the first chronicle written in the Old Czech language. It was composed in verse by an unknown author at the beginning of the 14th century. The Chronicle c ...

# Tři králové #

Vilma Vilma is a feminine first name. People named Vilma include: *Vilma Abrahamsson (born 1999), Swedish football player *Vilma Bánky (1901–1991), Hungarian silent film actress *Vilma Bardauskienė (born 1953), Lithuanian long jumper * Vilma Beck ...

# Čestmír #

Vladan Vladan (, sr-Cyrl, Владан) is a Serbo-Croatian masculine given name, a shorter form of Slavic dithematic names with the element ''vlad'' meaning "to rule, ruler". It is attested in Serbian society since the Middle Ages. The patronymic surnam ...

# Břetislav # Bohdana # Pravoslav # Edita # Radovan #

Alice Alice may refer to: * Alice (name), most often a feminine given name, but also used as a surname Literature * Alice (''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''), a character in books by Lewis Carroll * ''Alice'' series, children's and teen books by ...

# Ctirad # Drahoslav # Vladislav # Doubravka # Ilona # Běla # Slavomír # Zdeněk #

Milena Milena may refer to: * Milena (skipper), ''Milena'' (skipper), a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae * Milena, Sicily, a ''comune'' in the Province of Caltanissetta, Italy * Milena (given name), a popular female Slavic name * Milena (film ...

# Miloš # Zora # Ingrid # Otýlie # Zdislava # Robin # Marika

February

# Hynek/Jasmína # Nela, Hromnice # Blažej # Jarmila # Dobromila # Vanda/Arjuna # Veronika # Milada # Apolena # Mojmír # Božena # Slavěna # Věnceslav # Valentýn # Jiřina # Ljuba # Miloslava # Gizela # Patrik # Oldřich # Lenka # Petr # Svatopluk # Matěj # Liliana # Dorota # Alexandr # Lumír # Horymír

March

# Bedřich # Anežka # Kamil # Stela # Kazimír # Miroslav # Tomáš # Gabriela # Františka # Viktorie # Anděla # Řehoř # Růžena # Rút/Matylda # Ida # Elena/Herbert # Vlastimil #

Eduard Eduard Model Accessories is a Czech manufacturer of plastic models and finescale model accessories. Formed in 1989 in the city of Most, Eduard began in a rented cellar as a manufacturer of photoetched brass model components. Following the succ ...

# Josef # Světlana # Radek # Leona # Ivona # Gabriel # Marián # Emanuel # Dita # Soňa # Taťána # Arnošt # Kvido

April

# Hugo # Erika # Richard # Ivana # Miroslava # Vendula # Heřman # Ema #

Dušan Dušan ( sr-Cyrl, Душан) is a Slavic given name primarily used in countries of Yugoslavia; and among Slovaks and Czechs. The name is derived from the Slavic noun ''duša'' "soul". Occurrence In Serbia, it was the 29th most popular name ...

# Darja # Izabela # Julius # Aleš # Vincenc # Anastázie # Irena # Rudolf # Valérie # Rostislav # Marcela #

Alexandra Alexandra () is the feminine form of the given name Alexander (, ). Etymologically, the name is a compound of the Greek verb (; meaning 'to defend') and (; GEN , ; meaning 'man'). Thus it may be roughly translated as "defender of man" or "prot ...

# Evženie #

Vojtěch Vojtěch (Czech pronunciation: ) or Vojtech is a, respectively, Czech and Slovak given name of Slavic origin. It is composed of two parts: ''voj'' – "troops"/"war(rior)" and ''těch'' – "consolator"/"rejoicing man". So, the name could be interp ...

# Jiří # Marek # Oto # Jaroslav # Vlastislav # Robert # Blahoslav

May

Labour Day Labour Day ('' Labor Day'' in the United States) is an annual holiday to celebrate the achievements of workers. Labour Day has its origins in the labour union movement, specifically the eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for ...

( May Day) # Zikmund # Alexej # Květoslav # Klaudie # Radoslav # Stanislav # National holiday # Ctibor # Blažena # Svatava # Pankrác # Servác # Bonifác # Žofie # Přemysl # Aneta # Nataša # Ivo a Engelbert # Zbyšek # Monika # Emil # Vladimír # Jana # Viola # Filip # Valdemar # Vilém # Maxmilián # Ferdinand # Kamila

June

# Laura # Jarmil # Tamara # Dalibor # Dobroslav #

Norbert Norbert is a Germanic given name, from ''north, nord'' "north" and ''berht'' "bright". Norbert is also occasionally found as a surname. People with the given name Academia * Norbert Angermann (born 1936), German historian * Norbert A’Campo (bor ...

# Iveta # Medard # Stanislava # Gita # Bruno # Antonie # Antonín # Roland # Vít # Zbyněk # Adolf # Milan # Leoš # Květa/Květuše # Alois #

Pavla Pavla is the Czech form of the given name Paula (given name), Paula. Pavla may refer to: *Pavla Brantalova (born 1977), female bodybuilder born in the Czech Republic *Pavla Chrástová (born 1979), retired female medley swimmer from the Czech Repu ...

# Zdeňka #

Jan Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Num ...

# Ivan # Adriana # Ladislav # Lubomír # Petr a Pavel # Šárka

July

# Jaroslava # Patricie # Radomír # Prokop # National holiday # National holiday
( Jan Hus, 1415) # Bohuslava # Nora # Drahoslava #

Libuše , Libussa, Libushe or, historically ''Lubossa'', is a legendary ancestor of the Přemyslid dynasty and the Czech people as a whole. According to legend, she was the youngest but wisest of three sisters, who became queen after their father died; s ...

/Amálie # Olga # Bořek # Markéta # Karolína # Jindřich # Luboš # Martina # Drahomíra # Čeněk # Ilja # Vítězslav # Magdaléna # Libor # Kristýna # Jakub # Anna # Věroslav # Viktor #

Marta Marta may refer to: People * Marta (given name), a feminine given name * Märta, a feminine given name * Marta (surname) :István Márta composer * Marta (footballer) (born 1986), Brazilian professional footballer Places * Marta (river), an ...

# Bořivoj # Ignác

August

# Oskar # Gustav # Miluše # Dominik # Kristián # Oldřiška # Lada # Soběslav # Roman # Vavřinec # Zuzana # Klára # Alena # Alan # Hana # Jáchym # Petra #

Helena Helena may refer to: People *Helena (given name), a given name (including a list of people and characters with the name) *Katri Helena (born 1945), Finnish singer *Helena, mother of Constantine I Places Greece * Helena (island) Guyana * ...

# Ludvík # Bernard # Johana # Bohuslav # Sandra # Bartoloměj # Radim # Luděk # Otakar # Augustýn # Evelína # Vladěna # Pavlína

September

# Linda/Samuel # Adéla # Bronislav/Bronislava # Jindřiška # Boris # Boleslav # Regina/Regína # Mariana # Daniela # Irma # Denisa # Marie # Lubor # Radka # Jolana # Ludmila # Naděžda # Kryštof # Zita # Oleg # Matouš # Darina # Berta # Jaromír # Zlata # Andrea # Jonáš #

Václav Václav () is a Czech male first name of Slavic origin, sometimes translated into English as Wenceslaus or Wenceslas. These forms are derived from the old Slavic/Czech form of this name: Venceslav. Nicknames are: Vašek, Vašík, Venca, Venda For ...

# Michal # Jeroným

October

# Igor # Olívie/Oliver # Bohumil #

František František () is a masculine given name of Czech origin. It is a cognate of Francis, Francisco, François, and Franz. People with the name include: *Frank Daniel (František Daniel) (1926–1996), Czech film director, producer, and screenwriter ...

# Eliška # Hanuš # Justýna # Věra # Štefan/Sára # Marina # Andrej # Marcel # Renáta # Agáta # Tereza # Havel # Hedvika # Lukáš # Michala # Vendelín # Brigita # Sabina # Teodor # Nina # Beáta # Erik # Šarlota/Zoe # National holiday # Silvie # Tadeáš # Štěpánka

November

# Felix, Kani # All Souls' Day # Hubert #

Karel Karel may refer to: People * Karel (given name) * Karel (surname) * Charles Karel Bouley, talk radio personality known on air as Karel * Christiaan Karel Appel, Dutch painter Business * Karel Electronics, a Turkish electronics manufacturer * Gr ...

# Miriam # Liběna # Saskie # Bohumír # Bohdan # Evžen #

Martin Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Austral ...

# Benedikt # Tibor # Sáva # Leopold # Otmar # Mahulena # Romana # Alžběta # Nikola # Albert # Cecílie # Klement # Emílie # Kateřina # Artur # Xenie # René # Zina #

Ondřej Ondřej �ondr̝ɛjis a Czech given name, similar to English Andrew. * Ondřej Bank (born 1980), Czech alpine skier * Ondřej Buchtela (1999–2020), Czech ice hockey player * Ondřej Čelůstka (born 1989), Czech footballer * Ondřej Cverna (bor ...

December

# Iva # Blanka # Svatoslav # Barbora # Jitka # Mikuláš # Ambrož # Květoslava # Vratislav #

Julie Julie may refer to: * Julie (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the name Film and television * ''Julie'' (1956 film), an American film noir starring Doris Day * ''Julie'' (1975 film), a Hindi film by K. S. Sethumadhava ...

# Dana # Simona #

Lucie Lucie is the French and Czech form of the female name Lucia. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Lucie Ahl, British tennis player * Lucie Arnaz, American actress * Lucie Aubrac, member of the French Resistance * Lucie Balthaz ...

# Lýdie # Radana # Albína #

Daniel Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength" ...

# Miloslav # Ester # Dagmar # Natálie # Šimon # Vlasta # Adam/Eva,

Christmas Eve Christmas Eve is the evening or entire day before Christmas Day, the festival commemorating the birth of Jesus. Christmas Day is observed around the world, and Christmas Eve is widely observed as a full or partial holiday in anticipation ...

# 1st

Christmas Christmas is an annual festival commemorating Nativity of Jesus, the birth of Jesus, Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people Observance of Christmas by country, around t ...

Holiday # Štěpán (2nd Christmas Holiday) # Žaneta # Bohumila # Judita #

David David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

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