name day

1. 1.

   the feast day of a saint whose name one bears

   Broadersaint's day

Questions about name day

What does name day mean?

name day means "the feast day of a saint whose name one bears".

Is name day a common word?

name day is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.