For a long time, Orthodox Christians chose a name for a child according to the church calendar of name days, which indicates the dates of commemoration of all saints.
A boy or a girl was named after the saint whose commemoration day was closest to the date of birth.
Believers believe that this is how a child gets his guardian angel, who guides him on the path of truth throughout his life and protects him from evil forces.
Days of an angel in April 2023: who and when celebrate birthdays
April 1
– Daria, Dmytro, Ivan, Inokentiy, Sofia;
April 2
- Ivan, Klavdia, Maria, Vasyl, Victor, Vissarion, Herman, Maxim, Myron, Nikita, Oleksandra, Paraskovia, Svitlana, Sevastyan, Serhiy, Ulyana;
April 3
– Volodymyr, Kyrylo, Seraphim, Thomas, Yakiv;
April 4
– Vasyl, Vasylyna, Daryna, Isaakiy, Taisia;
April 5
– Oleksiy, Anastasia, Varvara, Vasyl, Ilya, George, Makar, Lydia, Pelageya, Sergey;
April 6
– Volodymyr, Zakhar, Martin, Stepan, Petro, Yakiv;
April 7
– Sava, Tikhon;
April 8
– Abraham, Alla, Anna, Vasyl, Gavrilo, Larisa, Paraskovia, Stepan;
April 9
– Ephrem, Ivan, Makar, Oleksandr, Pavlo;
April 10
– Vasyl, Ivan, Hilarion, Ilya, Mykola, Stepan;
April 11
– Ivan, Isaakiy, Kyrylo, Cornyliy, Mark, Mykhailo, Philip;
April 12
- Ivan, Zakhar;
April 13
– Anna, Benjamin, Ivan, Innokenty, Joseph;
April 14
– Ivan, Makar, Maria, Serhii, Yukhym;
April 15
– George, Grigory, Yukhym;
April 16
– Martin, Nikita, Feodosia;
April 17
– Adrian, Benjamin, George, Ivan, Joseph, Mary, Nikita, Mykola, Fedir;
April 18
– George, Mark, Mykola, Oleksiy, Platon, Semyon;
April 19
– Ivan, Grigoriy, Pavlo, Sevastyan, Petro, Yakiv;
April 20
– Arkady, George, Danylo, Evdokia, Kylina, Petro;
April 21
– Ivan, Maria, Serhii;
April 22
– Gavrilo, Vadim;
April 23
– Hryhoriy, Dmytro, Maxim, Oleksandr, Terentiy, Fedir, Yakiv;
April 24
– Ivan, Mykola, Prokhor, Petro, Yukhym, Yakiv;
April 25
– Vasyl, David, Ivan, Marfa, Maria, Sergey;
April 26
– Dmytro, George, Marfa;
April 27
– Anton, Valentin, Ivan, Martin, Oleksandr;
April 28
– Anastasia, Andrii, Aristarkh, Vasilisa, Victor, Kindrat, Leonid, Lukyan, Oleksandr, Sevastyan, Fedir, Trokhym;
April 29
– Vasylyna, Galina, Iryna, Leonid, Mykhailo, Nika, Pavlo;
April 30
– Adrian, Efrem, Ivan, Mykhailo, Oleksandr, Semyon, Fedir.
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