Name Days Norway & Calendar
Reminders for your contacts
In Norway most first names have their own day in the almanac, and plenty of people get congratulated on it, birthday or not. Name days kept slipping past me until someone else brought theirs up. Navnedag shows whose day it is today and who is next.
The app can check your contacts against the calendar and list when each of them celebrates, soonest first, with the picture from their contact card. Anyone celebrating today sits highlighted on top. Turn on reminders and a notification arrives at 9 in the morning when a contact has their name day. A tap opens a text message with the greeting already written, ready to send as is or change first.
The whole calendar ships with the app, 961 names across 363 days, so it works without a network. Only New Year’s Day, Christmas Day and the leap day stand without a name. Search finds every name with its date and the days until it, the month menu at the top jumps straight to any month, and a tap on a name opens its article on Norwegian Wikipedia. A short read in the app tells how the tradition arose in the early church and how the Norwegian list got its shape.
The 2026 version is rewritten from the ground up for iOS 26, with the whole name list checked against current official sources. It works properly on iPad and speaks both English and Norwegian. Still a good way to find an excuse to make a fuss over a friend, or to remember when you can get a free dinner at IKEA.
Your contacts never leave your phone. The matching happens on the device, and the app has no account.
Features
- The full Norwegian name day calendar, always available offline
- Today’s names first, then the whole year ahead
- Search every name, with the date and a countdown to its day
- See when your contacts have their name day, nicknames included
- A notification at 9 in the morning when a contact celebrates
- Send a prefilled greeting with a tap
- Jump straight to any month, and open a name’s Wikipedia article
- The story behind the tradition
- Pick the tab the app opens on
- Works on iPhone and iPad, in English and Norwegian