Baptism name

[Mosestheblack]

Hello, everyone. When I was baptized a couple of years ago I wasn’t given a baptism name as I was unaware of the practice at the time. Despite the fact that the time has come and passed would I still be able to choose one?

 

[PaulfromIowa]

One’s baptismal name or “Christian name” is usually your given first name. Catholics will sometimes take an additional favorite saint’s name at Confirmation. We can add a devotion to a saint at any point in our lives.

 

[pianistclare]

You have a name, right? It’s the same thing.

 

[Mintaka]

If the priest baptized you without adding any new name, your existing name/s must have been deemed suitable for Baptism. It is your baptismal name.

For Catholics, the rule is that any name not contrary to Catholic morals can be a baptismal name. And really, most names have a patron saint attached to them somewhere. (And then there’s you, at least when just baptized and sinless, right?)

I used to do name research for baptisms at my old parish, and I can look that stuff up for you. Message me privately.

But really, you can always add more middle names to your name. That is your prerogative.

 

[thistle]

Hello, everyone. When I was baptized a couple of years ago I wasn’t given a baptism name as I was unaware of the practice at the time. Despite the fact that the time has come and passed would I still be able to choose one?

Your baptism name is the name on your birth certificate. I have never heard of a saint’s name being added at baptism. I have asked all my Catholic friends and they have also never heard of such a thing.