ikolaja, Božica, Otilija, Evica and Viktorija were born in December. Women named Silva and men named Silvester and Silvo are mostly born on the last day of the year People born during the holiday season between Christmas and New Year are very frequently and much more commonly than people born in other periods of the year given the names Silvester and Silvestra or their shorter versions Silvo and Silva. Half of all male residents of Slovenia named Silvester and almost half of all male residents of Slovenia named Silvo were born in December; 78 of Silvesters and 78 of Silvos were actually born on the last day of the year. Female residents of Slovenia born on the last day of the year or a few days earlier were frequently named Silva. Silva is the most common name of women born on the last day of the year. At the beginning of 2018 among female residents of Slovenia born on the last day of the year there were twice as many Silvas as Marijas (164 vs. 86), although Marija is the most common female name in Slovenia. The name Silvestra is not a very common female name in Slovenia (673 women, 239 th place) but of all residents born in the last month of the year it is the most “December-like”. At the beginning of 2018 as many as 56% of women named Silvestra were born in December, 30 of them on the last day of the year. Silvija, a short version of the name Silvestra, is also one of the “December names”, since one in four Silvijas was born in December. Men named Štefan and women named Štefanija and Štefica born on St. Stephen’s Day The fourth most common name given to girls between Christmas and New Year is Štefanija, the female version of the male name Štefan (St. Stephen’s Day is 26 December). 52% of all women named Štefanija were born in December and 4% on 26 December. The name is also common for girls born in December in its version of Štefka (46% of women named Štefka were born in December) and Štefica (20% of women named Štefica were born in December). Štefan is the third most common male “December name”: of the 4,935 men named Štefan, 1,418 (29%) were born in December. Men named Nikolaj and Miklavž and women named Nikolaja A quarter of all men named Nikolaj and women named Nikolaja were born in December. For the short male version Niko the connection with December is not as clear. For the shortest male version Nik, which has been very popular recently, there is no connection between the child’s birthday and the day the name is stated in the calendar. A quarter of all men named Miklavž were born in December. This is not a very common name in Slovenia, since at the beginning of 2018 only 74 male residents were named Miklavž. Other “December names” and some family names Other “December names” are Otilija, Viktorija and Evica. All these (female) names have a connection to the church calendar. A quarter of women named Božica were born in December. The frequency of male version of this name, Božič (i.e. Christmas in English), is among men’s less than five. On the other hand, Božič is the family name of 3,370 residents of Slovenia and thus the 14 th most common family name in the country. At the beginning of 2018 there were 121 residents whose family name was Božiček, 38 whose family name was Miklavž and 817 whose family name was Rudolf. If you would like to know how common is your name,you can find the data in the interactive search engine Names and Birthdays .
ikolaja and Štefica for women. ikolaja in Božica ter Otilija, Evica in Viktorija, ki so na začetku leta 2018 živeli v Sloveniji, je bilo namreč rojenih v mesecu decembru. Silve ter Silvestri in Silvi so res »silvestrčki« Osebe, ki so se rodile v prazničnem času med božičem in novim letom, so zelo pogosto in precej pogosteje kot tiste, ki so se rodile v drugih mesecih leta, dobile imeni Silvester, Silvestra ali krajši različici Silvo, Silva. Polovica vseh prebivalcev Slovenije z imenom Silvester in skoraj polovica vseh z imenom Silvo je bilo rojenih v decembru, prav na zadnji dan leta pa je bilo rojenih 78 Silvestrov in ravno toliko Silvov. Ime Silva , to je skrajšano obliko imena Silvestra, so precej pogosto dobile prebivalke Slovenije, rojene na zadnji dan leta ali nekaj dni prej. Med tistimi, ki so se rodile prav na zadnji dan leta, na silvestrovo, pa je to ime najpogostejše in je Silv še enkrat več kot Marij, čeprav je Marija sicer najpogostejše žensko ime (Silva: 164, Marija: 86). Ime Silvestra se sicer ne uvršča med najpogostejša ženska imena (ima ga 673 prebivalk in je po pogostnosti na 239. mestu), je pa med vsemi imeni prebivalcev, rojenih v zadnjem mesecu leta, »najbolj decembrsko«. Kar 56 % vseh žensk, ki so živele v Sloveniji na začetku leta 2018 in jim je bilo ime Silvestra, je bilo rojenih v decembru, 30 med temi pa prav na zadnji dan v letu. Tudi Silvija , različica imena Silvestra, je eno od »decembrskih« imen, saj je bila vsaka četrta Silvija rojena v decembru. Štefani, Štefanije, Štefke, Štefice na štefanovo Četrto najpogostejše ime žensk, rojenih v dneh med božičem in novim letom, je ime Štefanija , ženska različica imena Štefan, ki goduje 26. decembra. 52 % vseh žensk z imenom Štefanija se je rodilo v decembru, 4 % od teh pa prav na štefanovo. V decembru se je rodilo tudi 46% vseh žensk z imenom Štefka (ki je sicer lahko tudi klicna oblika imena Štefanija) in 20 % žensk z imenom Štefica . Štefan je tretje najbolj »decembrsko« moško ime, saj se je 29 % (1.418) Štefanov od vseh 4.935, ki so na začetku 2018 živeli v Sloveniji, rodilo v decembru. Nikolaji “December names” In the past old customs dictated that the child gets the name of the saint whose name day is the closest to the child’s birthday or the day of the child’s christening. This was mostly true of children born by 1969. Some of the names among Slovenia’s population are more common in December and are related to the church calendar: at least 20% of men named Silvester, Silvo, Štefan, Miklavž and Nikolaj and at least 20% of women named Silvestra, Štefanija, Štefka, Silva, Silvija