Childs Name and Baptism?

[dakotamidnight]

Does a child’s name for baptism have to be a saint’s name?

I remember when I went through RCIA having to pick a name because neither of my names were saint names.

My daughter {born while I had drifted away from the church} name is Trinity Noelle - neither of which is a saint’s name but are both religious words.

Am I going to have to pick a new name for her to be baptized under?

 

[puzzleannie]

no both those names have Christian associations, and there is a St. Noel.

the Christian baptismal name does not have to be that of a saint, but must not be something directly anti-Christian. For instance in a culture where childen are named after pagan gods, someone being baptized would choose name of a saint, angel, attribute of Mary or Christ etc.

 

[SarahR]

No it doesn’t have to be a saint’s name. My children were baptized a little later than they should have been, and I asked if I needed to add in a saint’s name (as a second middle name), and the answer was no. Maybe your child will be the first St. Trinity???

Blessings–

 

[AMDGtoo]

Just an observation from an old CCD teacher:

Actually it would be a lot easier if the name was a Saints name. Besides the obvious fact that the child would then have a “ready-made” patron with the same name that she/he could look up to and ask to help them learn to pray, often our CCD lesson plans involved lessons on the child’s Baptism and patron Saints. At the time I was teaching CCD, new made-up names (often with strange spellings) or naming children after rock stars or certain events was “in”. I remember that we teachers had encylopedias of possible Saint names trying to find some sort of connection and that we would often look at the child’s middle name as well.

 

[belgianwaffles9]

Just an observation from an old CCD teacher:

Actually it would be a lot easier if the name was a Saints name. Besides the obvious fact that the child would then have a “ready-made” patron with the same name that she/he could look up to and ask to help them learn to pray, often our CCD lesson plans involved lessons on the child’s Baptism and patron Saints. At the time I was teaching CCD, new made-up names (often with strange spellings) or naming children after rock stars or certain events was “in”. I remember that we teachers had encylopedias of possible Saint names trying to find some sort of connection and that we would often look at the child’s middle name as well.

I think the names “trinity” and “noelle” would be more than fine for your little activities, and neither of them are saint names.