Psychologically: The name day as a dream symbol is to be interpreted as a tip to own identity. The name is something individual which rescues a magic secret, for example, in the fairy tale 'Rumpelstiltskin'. On the other side 'only' the happy party with presents and good food and drinking may be also appealed here. Popular: (European ones).: celebrate: means that one should think not only of himself, but also of others.