A baptismal name for a boy
Ivan
5 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Ivan
Right-Believing Ivan ShishmanMarch 5Tsar of Bulgaria at Tarnovo from 1371 to 1395, the last ruler there before the Ottoman conquest.
Passion-Bearer Ivan KharitonovJuly 17Head cook at the court of Tsar Nicholas II, killed with the imperial family at Yekaterinburg in 1918.- Saint Ivan SmirennikovAleut elder to whom, by St Innocent's account, angels foretold the missionary's coming; venerated by the faithful, not formally glorified.
New Martyr Ivan SednevFootman of the grand duchesses, killed in 1918 at Yekaterinburg; by some sources canonized by ROCOR in 1981.- New Martyr Ivan GojkovićMay 24A new martyr of Piva in Montenegro, killed in 1943 together with his family and neighbors.
Questions
The name day of Ivan is March 5, the feast of Right-Believing Ivan Shishman. It is also kept on July 17, May 24.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 5 saints named Ivan, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Ivan is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Right-Believing Ivan Shishman as patron.