Help........I need a Christian name!

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Plz help me…I’m midway going through RCIA…and my friends told me that I need a Christian name…I don’t know when will I need one(maybe during Rites of Iniciation)

but the first Rite is on January and I still haven’t thought of a Christian name to have yet

I hope you suggest some good ones for me

just for your info my name is Thalia (I don’t know whether it’s a Christian name or not)🤷

and if I take a Christian name it would appear as a middle name on my baptism cert

eg; Thalia (C.name) (Last Name)

for details:

Names I don’t want:
  • Mary (too common)
    -Sarah (too common)
    -Elizabeth (my friend has it)
    -Marilyn(my friend has it)
    -Francesca(same reason above)
Names I’ve considered but still sceptical:
  • Alexis (then sometimes I feel it’s too common)
  • Christine (my sister doesn’t like it and it’s her piano teacher’s name)
  • Delilah (it sounds nice, yet it’s a name of a traitor)
so plz help me…I want a name that is speacial and it sounds nice with my name and also maybe have a good meaning to it

Thanks
 
Do you mean that you need a Patron Saint?

Find a list of Saints, read their names, a few will stand out to you, read up on them and you will know who to pick.

Keep us posted! 👍 And welcome Home!
 
I choose “Frances” at my Confirmation…
I think it is different enough without being too much so…
also will work for a boy “Francis”
 
What about Therese in honor of St. Therese of the Little Flower?
 
My Confirmation name is Angela. I wanted a saint that was different, not someone everyone chooses, and she was the first one I found whose story I identified with. 😃

Here is a list of female Saints to look through. There are a TON of them!
 
thanks…I’ll see what comes to me…Therese sounds lovely too…maybe I’ll consider it
 
This will take you to a web site of saint names.

link

Your name is connected with the name Grace. Ann means grace. You don’t have to say it. I know its too common LOL

I like the name Kateri not to common.
 
If you happen to like a male Saint, you can pick that name for a Confirmation name. It doesn’t have to be a female Saint. It’s similar to names picked by male and female religious. I had a nun in school named Sr. Gerald. There are also a lot of male religious who pick the name Mary.
 
adrift said:
Your name is connected with the name Grace. Ann means grace. You don’t have to say it. I know its too common LOL

I like the name Kateri not to common.
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I am considering Talia as a possible name if I have a baby girl; I think it means “dew” in Hebrew. Is there a psalm perhaps comparing God to refreshing dew that could give religious meaning to the name? How is it connected with the name Grace, which could be Hannah or Anna (from the Hebrew “Chana”), mother of the prophet Samuel or elderly widow at the Temple when the infant Jesus was brought for His Presentation), as well as Anne.

I think Kateri is Katherine in Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha’s native American pronunciation.

If you like Mary as your patron saint, but don’t like the sound of it, you could try Our Lady’s name in another language: Marie, Maria, or Miriam / Maryam.

Thalia, how do you pronounce your name? “T” or “th” at the beginning, “eeyah” or just “ya” at the end? How did your parents choose it for you? How have you liked it growing up? Sorry to barge in on your thread for my own purposes. 😃
 
well…I quite like my name Thalia growing up

but my Thalia is pronouce like Talia (Ta-Lia)
 
hopelessrom_grl said:
Names I don’t want:
  • Mary (too common)
    -Sarah (too common)
    -Elizabeth (my friend has it)
    -Marilyn(my friend has it)
    -Francesca(same reason above)
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I didn’t know Marilyn was a Christian name - that’s my name! 😃
I chose Mary for my Confirmation name - I’ve always admired Mary Magdalene for turning her life around and for being Jesus’ friend. I feel bad when non-Catholics chastise her and try to make her into someone she wasn’t. How cool would that be to be a friend of Jesus! :cool:
 
Alexis (then sometimes I feel it’s too common)

Alexis is actually a man’s name. The feminine would be Alexia.
 
I chose Domitilla (pronounced “Doh mi teeyah”)

As many have said, I wanted something out of the ordinary, and her story seemed to fit!

Now, years later, my neice has this as her first name!
 
Thalia,
In choosing a Confirmation name, you’re choosing a patron saint. The main consideration is not how the name sounds to you. Read up on the saints – there are plenty of websites which offer information about their lives. Discern which saint might be a good model for you to follow. Then make it a routine part of your prayer life to ask that saint to intercede in prayer for you. This is a wonderful opportunity in your journey of faith.
 
I have erred in my previous posting.

First, choosing a Confirmation name (when you are confirmed) is optional – not required. This would usually be your patron saint.

Second, according to the rite book, there is an optional rite during the Rite of Acceptance (the gateway liturgical rite during when you will enter the catechumenate) – this is called the “Giving of a New Name.” The instructions are:
“At the discretion of the diocesan bishop, the giving of a new name to persons from cultures in which it is the practice of non-Christian religions to give a new name may follow the signing of the candidates with the cross…This may be either a Christian name or one familiar in the culture, provided such a name is not incompatible with Christian beliefs. In some cases it will suffice to explain the Christian understanding of the catechumens’ given names.”
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My understanding is that you are not required to take on a new name.
 
My confirmation name is Catherine for Catherine of Siena. Everyone in my class went with Therese, but I wanted to be unique:)

Read over some of the lives of the saints - one will jump out at you I am sure. I admire St. Catherine of Siena for her courage,intelligence and devotion to the Church during what was a very difficult time (the Avignon Papacy).
 
Biblioassistant said:
My confirmation name is Catherine for Catherine of Siena. Everyone in my class went with Therese, but I wanted to be unique:)

Read over some of the lives of the saints - one will jump out at you I am sure. I admire St. Catherine of Siena for her courage,intelligence and devotion to the Church during what was a very difficult time (the Avignon Papacy).
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Yes to Catherine (no surprise?) but today is the feast of another Catherine; Catherine Laboure who (as a Daughter of Charity) was instrumental in spreading devotion to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, based in personal apparitions she had during her novitiate year. The prayer on the medal “O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee” pre-dated the Church’s ultimate declaration of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception.
 
I chose Virginia, for both my earthly and my heavenly mother. Never regretted it.

However, it is not a name I use either formally or informally. Just in my heart.
 
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