Namesake Day
Namesake Day is held on March 7. It is celebrated every first Sunday of March. This event in the first decade of the month March is annual.
An eponym is the person, place, or thing that something else is named after. For example, Achilles is the eponym of the Achilles tendon. Queen Victoria is the eponym of Lake Victoria and quite a few other things. Amerigo Vespucci is the eponym of America.
Namesake day is part of International Celebrate Your Name Week and was created to allow people to research the history of their names and see if they can live up to their expectations - if any. The namesake day was invented so that people could find out the origins of their last name and first name. Who we were named after and what our names mean. Although we have to share our first or last name with many people, there is always a reason why our parents gave it to you.