Catholic naming

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Does the baptismal name have to be a saint or biblical person? Your confirmation name becomes your middle name, if I’m correct? What happens to the saint you selected for confirmation? I don’t remember mine. Was I supposed to add her name to mine
 
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Not sure about the confirmation part but the bapismal name is a name of your choice. Of course its encouraged to be a baptismal name. When I get a child I want him to be called John or Michael. Great names 🙂
 
I I like biblical names too but I want to name my children based on their grandparents culture
 
Someone here should correct me if I am wrong, but I think you are free to do so.
 
Your confirmation name only becomes your ‘middle name’ if you officially change your legal name. Otherwise you can use it in Catholic circles but not on legal documents.
 
No not required but it’s always nice to hear a good saintly name rather than something millennial and crazy.
 
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Are you referring to name origins? You can choose a saint (including holy men and women in the bible) and give your child a name that honors their grandparents culture.

Take the name Mary, for example, and look at all the ethnic variations.


A saint’s or biblical name is not required but encouraged for Catholics. Also, confirmation names are also not required; it’s just a tradition. It’s possible that when the time comes for your children’s aconfirmation, the parish you are a member of won’t suggest confirmation names to be used and your child’s first name will be used. Quite a few Catholics wish they had chosen a different saint for confirmation and want to know how to change their confirmation name but there isn’t a way to do so; it’s not an official record of the Church and a person can choose a different patron saint at any time.
 
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DignumEtJustum said:
No not required but it’s always nice to hear a good saintly name rather than something millennial and crazy.
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Given that neither my biological mother, my adoptive mother, nor I have Biblical or Saintly names I sincerely believe that crazy naming (at least for girls) does not fall to Millenials alone.
 
Perhaps not though older generations would not have been likely to name their daughters “Apple” or “Rain.”
 
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Perhaps not though older generations would not have been likely to name their daughters “Apple” or “Rain.”
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We have become accustomed to some of the name-mauling that they did, so it isn’t so strange to us. But it was odd at the time. Granted, they had a more traditional sound, but even Catholic children got names that raised eyebrows.
 
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Does the baptismal name have to be a saint or biblical person? Your confirmation name becomes your middle name, if I’m correct? What happens to the saint you selected for confirmation? I don’t remember mine. Was I supposed to add her name to mine
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Does the baptismal name have to be a saint, no. But it’s good to name your child with a saint name (or name like Grace, Faith, Hope, etc). It doesn’t have to be the first name, it can be the middle name. It can also be a variant of the Saint’s name.

For example: Nichole or Nicole for Nicholas

My son’s name is Ryan Zachary, his middle name is his saint name. My daughter’s first name is Isabella so her first name is a saint name.

And with all of my siblings, they all have a middle name that is a saint’s name (plus a variant for my sister). Their middle names are: Matthew, Michael, Nicole, and Ann.

And finally, my mother legally have a saint’s name (due to a screw up) nor a middle name, but she was baptized as Maria, what was supposed to be her middle name.

God Bless
 
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Your confirmation name only becomes your ‘middle name’ if you officially change your legal name. Otherwise you can use it in Catholic circles but not on legal documents.
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Or if you use your middle name as your confirmation name 🙂
 
I looked up a few articles about 1960’s popular hippy names:

Dawn, Harmony, Indago (didn’t reach charts till the '70’s), Janis, Meadow, Serenity, Willow, Echo, Leaf, River, Janice, Marley all managed to make their way onto top 500-1000, though never higher than 250 ranking.
 
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Some of those are kind of odd though Dawn would have been around before the 30s and 40s as Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons sang “Dawn” 20 some odd years later. Janis I’ve heard as both a man and woman’s name (Janis Zabers and Janis Joplin). In fact I would name my son Jan after Jan Peerce.
 
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Xanthippe_Voorhees said:
Some of them did exist before, but my point is that outlandish nature names are not the sole property of Millenials.
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Is it uncharitable to mention a group the has the weirdest, totally made-up names? Some sound like technical names for plastics.

And I’d love to talk about the name that sounded like a mashup of Cassidy and chaos with different letters than in the original name and word. Just wow.
 
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Xanthippe_Voorhees:
Some of them did exist before, but my point is that outlandish nature names are not the sole property of Millenials.
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Is it uncharitable to mention a group the has the weirdest, totally made-up names? Some sound like technical names for plastics.

And I’d love to talk about the name that sounded like a mashup of Cassidy and chaos with different letters than in the original name and word. Just wow.
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I wasn’t speaking of charity, I was speaking to the fact that Millenials are far from the creators of the weird names trend.

It’s my pet peeve when they are blamed for things that were simply trends that we continued.

One may argue that it’s perhaps better for men who don’t have 3 names making up 70% of what they are named.
 
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Xanthippe_Voorhees said:
I wasn’t speaking of charity, I was speaking to the fact that Millenials are far from the creators of the weird names trend.

It’s my pet peeve when they are blamed for things that were simply trends that we continued.

One may argue that it’s perhaps better for men who don’t have 3 names making up 70% of what they are named.
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Oh, sorry, I was wondering if I was being charitable when I call out a certain denomination in which Jennyfivetina might actually be someone’s real name.

It’s growing on me. New Twitter name, here I come!
 
Why would you defend millennials? I’m one myself and am embarrassed to admit it. Worst generation ever.
 
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