Romania's name-day calendar: how many people in the register celebrate on each published day

The source is the Direcția Generală pentru Evidența Persoanelor in Romania's Interior Ministry, the directorate that keeps the National Register of Persons. For each feast, the directorate has published on its own site a release with the table of feminine and masculine given-name forms attached to the day and the people count for each form. The count covers the 20 days for which such a table exists and takes, from each table, the latest year printed. A day's total is the sum of its table's rows.

The counts cover Romanian citizens entered in the register. They are not the country's resident population and not the children born in a year. A person with two given names celebrated on different days can appear in two tables, and the releases do not show how compound given names were assigned to forms; for that reason the days are never added together anywhere on the page.

The form lists are the directorate's own, customary attachments included: Cosmin under Constantine and Helen, Angela under Florii, the Crist- names under Christmas, Valentin on 14 February, a date on which the Orthodox calendar keeps other saints. Saint Mary has two releases, for the Dormition (15 August) and the Nativity of the Mother of God (8 September), with the same list; the page shows her once, with both dates and the newer table. Palm Sunday (Florii) is movable: on the chandelier it sits at its 2026 date, 5 April, and the span 28 March – 1 May is computed from the Orthodox Easter reckoning for the years 2000–2099.

Feast dates are the Orthodox ones, taken from the directorate's releases where they give one and checked against an Orthodox calendar for 2026. The general Roman Catholic calendar keeps seven of these days on the same dates — George, Peter and Paul, Saint Mary (15 August and 8 September), Catherine, Andrew, Nicholas and Christmas — and others on different ones: Basil on 2 January, Joachim and Anne on 26 July, the archangels Michael and Gabriel on 29 September, Stephen on 26 December, one day before the Orthodox date, and the Western Palm Sunday fell on 29 March in 2026. The 7 January feast, Valentine, Theodore, Constantine and Helen, Elijah, Alexander, Parascheva and Demetrius do not appear on these dates in the general Catholic calendar. At Saint Parascheva, the smallest published day (40,366 people, 2025), the total is about 65 times smaller than at Saint Mary — the size of a name day does not follow the size of the feast.

Two tables were published as images, for Saint Demetrius and Saint Catherine; their rows were transcribed from the images and re-read against them. At Florii, the directorate's printed totals for the feminine forms differ from the sum of its own rows by 87 people in 2026 and by four people in 2024; the page uses the sum of the rows. One cell in the Saint Nicholas table, the 2023 value of the form Niculia, is misprinted (“2241.629”, probably two values run together) and was not guessed; the form enters the day's total with its 2025 value of 21 people, and only its 2023 comparison is missing.

How many Romanians carry the name Maria?

In the table published for 2026, the form Maria counts 1,491,115 people. With every form in the table — Mariana, Marian, Marius and the rest — Saint Mary's day sums to 2,639,038 people.

Which is the largest name day?

Of the 20 published days, Saint Mary (15 August and 8 September), with 2,639,038 people in the 2026 table. Next is Saint John, on 7 January, with 1,953,014 people in the 2025 table.

Why are all 365 days not here?

The register directorate has published tables for 20 days. For the rest of the year no public per-name count of the register exists, and this page does not replace it with estimates.