Celebrating the Finnish name of the day

Photo: Sabrina Salzano Finnish name days, calendar, celebration, tradition, Almanac Office of Helsinki University, Finland-Swedish, Sámi Personalised for a wide selection of Finnish names, these bookworms (“reading caterpillars” in Finnish), will hold your page while you take time out to celebrate your name day.

In Finland, people not only celebrate their birthdays each year, but their name days as well. The tradition of assigning names to specific dates stretches back to medieval times.

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