Nameday Calendars published between 1958 and 1989. Presently the databank includes 1153 unique names. Namedays are weaved from a history of religious traditions, ethnical folklore, and cultural geographies of changing times. Latvian names are gender specific.
Names link patterns of change to adopted customs, demographic trends, and social diversities.
The longest name has 11 letters. The shortest names have 3 letters. Nine of the 12 apostles have namedays. This databank is a work in progress whose initiative addresses educational issues in language, culture and tradition on an international scale. Names are persons, places, and things.