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Your "first" birthday is actually your second birthday.

• tremon 6y ago
  To be pedantic, it's the first annual celebration of your birthday. Other languages use a less confusing term for it: anniversaire (French) is just anniversary, verjaardag (Dutch) roughly means year-rollover-day, and cumpleaños (Spanish) signifies completion of another year.
  • FigmentEngine 6y ago
    its the same in English: late 14c., from Old English byrddæg, "anniversary or celebration of one's birth" (at first usually a king or saint); see birth (n.) + day. Meaning "day on which one is born" is from 1570s. Birthnight is attested from 1620s. https://www.etymonline.com/word/birthday#etymonline_v_27158 https://www.etymonline.com/word/birthday#etymonline_v_27158
  • tremon 6y ago
    I just realized something: anniversaire has the same root as the other examples I gave. It comes from the latin words annus and verso, which mean "year" and "to turn over" respectively.