Mārtiņdiena

I received a nice postcard from my parents and some sweets on my nameday. It appears that in Latvia there are 13'400 persons with name Mārtiņš, which is more than 1% of all men and around 2% of Latvians. But as much I've seen that for the guys who were born in '85 - '87 the percentage could be even more than 10% because in my class at school I had 4 other classmates called Mārtiņš and in the other places I meet people my age there's a fairly good chance that the other guy's name is Mārtiņš as well. Though I'm not sure whether this sudden increase in popularity of this traditionally Latvian name was related to national revival or just some random sparkle of poupularity.
I know I know - the blue sky is not for me, and neither that road covered by the roses.