IS IT MY NAME DAY IN POLAND TODAY....?

Not long after arriving in Polska my English name ( ian ) became Jan , its the same name anyways , just a different version , and i quite like being Jan...the thing i need to know is when is my name day..? my birthday is on 19th november , so is my nameday today...should i go out and get a few bottles of Piwo....??????

I am a scottish Iain and so Jan/Janek/Jaszek as well...it would appear that today would be our name day. Which is nice because it was my birthday yesterday and it means I now have an excuse to go out drinking again :)

Happy Name Day (if it is today)...
Good question. my gf's name day was yesterday, but her birthday was in April. How does it work?

Here is a list for the name Jan.

Can't see no reason, not to celabrate with a piwo on all these dates:))

I was told its the name day closest to your birthday....but i am sure some of our resident experts will give us the facts....

you can choose the day of your name. i was born in december but my name day is 11 nov. on independence day. there is plenty of the jan name days. of course you can celebrate them all ;)

bottoms up!

you or the parents?
So I suppose in the case of my Kasia she has chosen one 7 months away from her birthday so that she doesn't get "combined" presents.

Oooo...that sounds like a plan. Trust me to have a name that means lots of excuses to drink.

true but still you can choose your day (as many people do)

Oh i see there is a Jan nameday on the 24th too...so maybe thats my name day...?

if you are a little newborn baby it's up your parents but i dont think that wildover has to ask his old folks to choose the name day for him ;)

21st Nov was the nameday for Janusz, not sure if thats the same as Jan. I want a nameday, but cant find one for my name, guess I have to find the Polish equivalent of it.

Celebrate all of them just to be on the safe side

and what's your name sapphire?

samantha

9 marca Samanta
4 grudnia Samanta

hey thanks McCoy thats great. What is grudnia though? How do I choose between these?

march 9 and december 4. like wildover wrote its usualy the next closest date to your b-day but if you prefer the other day feel free to choose it

great. Well one of them is next week so maybe thats a good time to start :)

yeah, another crazy party on PF is coming soon !

;)

I didn't think English people could have a name day! In that case I now have one on 25th July! :D

just so long as you adhere to all the other Catholic traditions. confession time anyone?

I'm not allowed to have a name day. The boss has several (of course) and uses them as a convenient way of justifying all sorts of celebrations.

Lets start a campaign for everyone to have a name day.

how long do we have...it could take a while.....!

nice.

Wszystkiego najlepszeg z okazji Dnia Imienin Mr:)

i ve got 3 names. the 1st and the 2nd are from my babtism and the 3th is from the confirmation. i wish i celebrate all of them ;)

lol

Yeah I could confess! Maybe you should start a topic sausage!

:D

Confession will always be open for those that are truely sorry and have some juicy gossip.

I think there already is a confession topic. You have spent too much time away from PF... do you have a life or something???
I think another Catholic tradition you might want to avoid is the one where they don't party for a certain length of time before Christmas. Can't remember exactly how long for...