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When you open the Name day article on Wikipedia, you can see that the word day is not capitalised.

I thought this is a rule but then I've found this page of Finnish Name Days where days start with a capital letter.

On the other hand, the day word starts with D both in Father's Day and Mother's Day.

What's the rule here? Is it a mistake that Name day on Wikipedia is not capitalised?

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    In the article, it's a name day (or name days), not Name day. This should be similar to the spelling of birthday, i.e. we write Tomorrow is my sister's birthday, not Tomorrow is my sister's Birthday. The title of the page Finnish Name Days is different because it's a title.
    – Damkerng T.
    Jun 23, 2015 at 9:31
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    @DamkerngT. : You should write your comment as an answer. That a good explanation.
    – serenesat
    Jun 23, 2015 at 9:57
  • @DamkerngT. I'd be delighted to mark it as accepted :)
    – Mateusz Piotrowski
    Jun 23, 2015 at 9:58
  • I posted my answer. :-) Anyway, it's recommend on ELL to wait for a while (half a day or a day) to let other users see your questions, and possibly post their answers, which may add additional useful information or may take the question-answer from a different angle entirely.
    – Damkerng T.
    Jun 23, 2015 at 10:33
  • @DamkerngT. Ok, I'll remember about that. :)
    – Mateusz Piotrowski
    Jun 23, 2015 at 10:35

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In the article, it's a name day (or name days), not Name day. This should be similar to the spelling of birthday, i.e. we write Tomorrow is my sister's birthday, not Tomorrow is my sister's Birthday.

The title of the page Finnish Name Days is different because it's a title. There are a number of title case styles in English. You can read more about title case on Wikipedia: Letter case, under sections Title case and Headings and publication titles.

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