It's the day a saint with your name comes up on the caledar - other cultures celebrate it in the way we celebrate birthdays. I know it's very common in Italy, and it was a normal practice in pre-Soviet Russia, too.
St Samuel's feast day is February 16th, so that would be your name-day.
In old old days of Russia (it's back now again, too), they named children after the saint of the day they were born in or the day they baptized, which was celebrated - именины aka name-day. That's how all those imported queens got their Russian names.
Some saints had more than 1 day, so people had more than 1 name-day :)
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St Samuel's feast day is February 16th, so that would be your name-day.
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Some saints had more than 1 day, so people had more than 1 name-day :)
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