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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