Legal name and baptismal name

[Baz123]

baby Christened before registered, christening names added as middle names on legal documents and a new name added as 1st name
, is this ok?

Has it always been that baptismal name is the legal name and 1st name used are is your baptismal name the same as confirmation names?

 

[Phemie]

I’m a little confused by what you’re asking. Normally the baptismal name (or names) is the same as what’s on the birth certificate. Some parishes even make you wait until you can show them your child’s birth certificate before they will baptize to make doubly sure the names match.

Until 20 years ago, in my Canadian province, it was the clergy who submitted the names to Vital Statistics after the children had been baptized. I received many phone calls from Vital Statistics over the years, checking to see if their records were correct by comparing what they had on record with what was in our registers of Baptism. Our registers were considered the definite source.

In some parishes/dioceses you chose another name at Confirmation but that’s not a universal practice. It certainly wasn’t done where I was confirmed 59 years ago, nor where my kids or the 2 children I sponsored were confirmed.

 

[BartholomewB]

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[1ke]

baby Christened before registered, christening names added as middle names on legal documents and a new name added as 1st name
, is this ok?

If a child has a legal name change after the baptism occurs and baptismal record is recorded, a new entry should be made with the new legal name and it should be cross referenced to the original record.

Has it always been that baptismal name is the legal name and 1st name used

“Baptismal name” isn’t really a thing. The full legal name is entered in the record.

So John James Smith is recorded. Whether the priest uses John or James in the baptism— or a saint name that isn’t the child’s name— is irrelevant.

is your baptismal name the same as confirmation names?

It can be. Confirmands can be confirmed under their own legal name or a Saint name. Most sacramental registers have a place to record the legal name and the Saint name, but the Saint name is not required.

 

[Cor_ad_Cor]

I would refer you to your previous thread about the same issue:

Priest has give blessing to include a new 1st name for our child the day after she was baptised/christened, moving the names we choose to middle names I’m worried this will take away from her baptism? Liturgy and Sacraments

Priest has given his blessing to include a new 1st name for our child the day after she was baptised/christened as we can’t settle on the name as a 1st giving name and it is not a Christian name, after speaking to the priest we are thinking of keeping the names however’ moving the names we choose to middle names? I’m worried including a new 1st name which will be a christen name however it was not a name mentioned in her christening/baptism, when asked what name do you give we replied only the …

Legal names have no impact on the sacraments occurring.

Seems like maybe there was even another thread about this somewhere…?