Editing Name day (section)

===Czech Republic===
{{Main|Name days in the Czech Republic}}
In the Czech Republic, each day of the year corresponds to a personal name (or several names). People celebrate their name day ({{lang|cs|svátek}} or dated {{lang|cs|jmeniny}}) on the date corresponding to their own given name.

Name days are commonly of less importance than birthdays to Czech people. However, name-day celebrations can be, and often are, held together with friends or co-workers of the same name and in this way can grow in size and importance.{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}}

In the past, by law, parents were not allowed to choose just any name for a child.{{Citation needed|date=February 2017}} This has changed, although it is still common to choose the name from the name-day "calendar". 
The original list was the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, but changes have been made to reflect the present-day usage of names.
Any existing name, Czech or foreign, can be given, but not domestic or diminutive forms.<ref>
{{cite act
| url = https://www.zakonyprolidi.cz/cs/2000-301
| title = Zákon o matrikách, jménu a příjmení a o změně některých souvisejících zákonů
| legislature = Parlament České republiky
| language = cs
| date = 2 August 2020
| article = §62
| index = 301/2000Sb.
| type = Zákon
}}
</ref>

Name days corresponding to some of the most frequently occurring names in the Czech Republic gain slightly more importance than others.{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}} 
For example, the dates associated with the names ''Josef'' (Joseph) and ''Karel'' (Charles) are commonly known even by people with different names.{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}} 
However, the popularity of these names has decreased in the last years (6836 Josefs were born in 1947, but only 638 in 2014<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.nasejmena.cz/nj/cetnost.php |title= Naše jména - aktuální databáze jmen a příjmení četnost v ČR, význam, svátek|website= www.nasejmena.cz|language=cs}}</ref>).