onomasti
5
May

Eirini

Ειρήνη

Irene, Irini, in English

Key facts

Eirini at a glance

Name day
3 name days are kept — Greek custom keeps them all
This year · 2026
Tuesday, 14 April · Tuesday, 5 May · Tuesday, 28 July
Next year · 2027
Tuesday, 4 May · Wednesday, 5 May · Wednesday, 28 July  why the date can move ↓

This name keeps more than one day. At least one of them is a movable feast — its date is set relative to Pascha (Orthodox Easter), which itself shifts each year, so that day changes from year to year. The remaining day (or days) are fixed calendar dates and do not move. onomasti computes the observed date for every year.

Make it yours

Learn Eirini

Say it

Ειρήνη

The accent shows the stress — your voice lifts on the highlighted letter.

In English letters: Eirini · Irene · Irini

Write it

Ειρήνη

Copy it and paste it anywhere you can’t type Greek — a text, a card, a cake.

Tell the kids

Pass it on. Tell them whose name they carry — and that this day is theirs to keep.

Χρόνια Πολλά

Send Eirini a Χρόνια Πολλά

Χρόνια Πολλά Ειρήνη 5 Μαΐου onomasti

A name day matters more than a birthday in a Greek family — and everyone sends Χρόνια Πολλά. Here is a card to send, and the correct Greek to write, whether or not you can type it yourself.

Warm — someone close

Χρόνια πολλά, Ειρήνη!The everyday wish — “many years”.
Να τα εκατοστίσεις!“May you live to a hundred” — the traditional wish, to someone close.

Formal — an elder, or with respect

Χρόνια πολλά και ευτυχισμένα!A fuller, warmer wish — “many years, and happy ones”.
Να τα εκατοστίσετε!“May you live to a hundred” — with respect, or to more than one person.

The card and the wishes are in Greek — the way you would actually send them. We never machine-translate; these are fixed, correct greetings, and the name is woven in only where Greek grammar lets us do it without guessing.

Variations

Forms & nicknames of the name

One name takes many forms — the formal, the everyday, the affectionate, and the spellings that travelled abroad. Each has its own page here, and all share the same day.

English & romanised

you are hereEirini IreneIrini

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