{"id":3172,"date":"2024-12-27T08:02:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T08:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2024-12-27T08:02:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T08:02:38","slug":"over-half-a-million-romanians-celebrate-name-day-on-st-stephens-feast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=3172","title":{"rendered":"Over half a million Romanians celebrate name day on St. Stephen&#8217;s feast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 500,000 Romanians are celebrating their name day on Friday, December 27, coinciding with the feast of Saint Stephen, according to data from the Directorate for Personal Records quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.ro\/social\/peste-500-000-de-romani-isi-sarbatoresc-ziua-onomastica-astazi-1922402327002024120721880214?utm_source=News&amp;utm_medium=Click%2BCitesteSi&amp;utm_campaign=CitesteSi%2Bnews\" target=\"_blank\">News.ro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among them, 364,444 men and 155,791 women bear names derived from Saint Stephen, such as \u0218tefan or \u0218tefania.<\/p>\n<p>The most common names are \u0218tefan\/Stefan, with 312,604 men, and \u0218tefania\/Stefania, with 128,775 women. Second on the list are Istvan, borne by 32,064 men, and \u0218tefana, carried by 17,865 women.<\/p>\n<p>Other names celebrated on this day include Fane, F\u0103nel, F\u0103nic\u0103, Fana, F\u0103nu\u021ba, F\u0103nica, and \u0218tef\u0103nel.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Stephen is commemorated by Christians on the third day of Christmas. He is celebrated as the first to proclaim and testify to faith in Christ, earning the title of the Church&#8217;s first martyr.<\/p>\n<p>editor@romania-insider.com<\/p>\n<p>(Photo source: Inquam Photos\/George Calin)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 500,000 Romanians are celebrating their name day on Friday, December 27, coinciding with the feast of Saint Stephen, according to data from the Directorate for Personal Records quoted by News.ro. Among them, 364,444 men and 155,791 women bear names derived from Saint Stephen, such as \u0218tefan or \u0218tefania. The most common names are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}