Baptismal names for children born on February 25

Boys' names from this day

Girls' names from this day

From the eighth day, March 3

All the saints of February 25

• Saint Felix III of RomeBishop of Rome from 483 to 492, who rejected the Henotikon, leading to the Acacian schism.
• Right-⁠Believing Æthelberht of KentKing of Kent, the first Christian Anglo-⁠Saxon king, baptized through the mission of Augustine of Canterbury.
• Venerable WalburgaAnglo-⁠Saxon missionary to the Frankish empire, abbess of the monastery at Heidenheim.
• Saint Tarasios of ConstantinoplePatriarch of Constantinople from 784 to 806, who presided over the Seventh Ecumenical Council at Nicaea.
• Right-⁠Believing ConstantinaEldest daughter of Constantine the Great, venerated as a saint, who died in 354.
• Saint Donatus of ZadarBishop of Zadar and diplomat of the Dalmatian city-⁠state, at the turn of the 8th and 9th centuries.
• Martyr Alexander of RomeRoman soldier martyred in 289 and buried by his mother Pimenia near the river Ergina.
• Hieromartyr Reginos of SkopelosBishop tortured to death in 362, patron of the island of Skopelos, where part of his relics are kept.
• Venerable Martyr Gennady RebezaAbbot of Bizyukov Monastery in the Kherson diocese, confessor of Metropolitan Anatoly of Odesa; died a martyr in 1937.
• Venerable Martyr John LabaMonk born in 1863 in Podolia, who died on 4 September 1937 near Shymkent; canonized as a venerable martyr.
• Hieromartyr Leo KorobchukMartyr of the Orthodox Church in Poland, born in 1919 and died in 1944.
• ASVenerable Asclepius of SyriaSyrian hermit of the 4th and 5th centuries, of whose life Theodoret of Cyrrhus gives few details.
• Venerable Aldetrudis of MaubeugeAbbess of the monastery of Maubeuge, reposed in 696.
• AVHieromartyr Alexander VinogradovA Russian priest put to death for his faith in Christ in 1938, during the communist persecution.
• CIVenerable Cailtan of IonaMonk at Iona, also called Coelten or Colga; his feast on 25 February is uncertain.
• CTVenerable Caoimhe of TamhlachtAn Irish saint honored at Tamhlacht, commemorated in the Martyrology of Tallaght.
• CVenerable CaomhsaA venerable saint, commemorated in the Irish calendar; very little is recorded.
• CVenerable CiananA venerable saint, commemorated in the Irish calendar; very little is recorded.
• CSSaint Concordius of SaintesSaint of Saintes, who reposed in the 6th century, venerated in the Western Church.
• CTVenerable Croine of TamhlachtaAn Irish saint honored at Tamhlachta, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.
• DESaint Dioscorus of EgyptA name entered in the martyrology of Ado of Vienne, on 25 February; few details survive.
• DJHoly Martyrs Donatus, Justus, Herena and CompanionsA company of fifty martyrs of North Africa who suffered under Decius.
• DJHoly Martyrs Donatus, Justus, Herena and Companions of AfricaMartyrs of Africa, commemorated together.
• EASaint Eustasius of AostaBishop of Aosta, who reposed in the 5th century, venerated in the Western Church.
• HMartyr Hypatius
• MSaint MarcellusA hierarch of Solea in Cyprus, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.
• MFVenerable Martyr Mstislava FokinaNun martyred for the faith of Christ in 1938, during the Soviet persecution.
• NTHieromartyr Nicholas TroitskyCleric martyred for the faith of Christ.
• TFFool-⁠for-⁠Christ Theodore the Fool for ChristA saint who chose to be a fool for Christ, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.
• Venerable Valerius of BierzoA holy hermit and writer of Bierzo in Spain, who reposed in 695.
• Hieromartyr Sylvester OlshevskyBishop from 1915 and Archbishop of Omsk and Pavlodar from 1918, who died a martyr in Omsk in 1920.
• ASSaint Antonios of SardisBishop of Sardis, venerated as a saint in the Orthodox Church.

Questions

I.What can I name a boy born on February 25?

From the saints of the day: Felix, Tarasios, Donatus, Alexander, Gennady, John, Hypatius, Marcellus, Nicholas, Theodore, Valerius, Sylvester, Antonios. You may also choose a saint of the eighth day or any saint dear to the family.

II.What can I name a girl born on February 25?

From the women saints of the day: Constantina. You may also choose one of the eighth day or any saint dear to the family.

III.Must the name be the saint of the birthday?

No. Tradition links it to the birthday or the eighth day, but many parents choose a saint who has helped the family.