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pianistclare said:
that “jello” story is an old urban myth. Been around for about 25 years…:rolleyes:
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The point is that you can’t just name your baby anything short of Lucifer.

The other names on the second list, by the way, were purportedly taken from the Social Security list of baby names. Somebody really did name their kid Ikea. Not a good baptismal name, let’s just say that.

Limoncello and related names, by the way, are actual surnames in the Social Security database, as well, so it is not a stretch to believe they could be proposed as first names.
 
Bruised_Reed said:
But they were born at the hospital where her friend worked! Apparently there are identically named kids that went to the school where a friend’s mom worked. There must be dozens of kids with these names. :hmmm:
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EasterJoy said:
The point is that you can’t just name your baby anything short of Lucifer.

The other names on the second list, by the way, were purportedly taken from the Social Security list of baby names. Somebody really did name their kid Ikea. Not a good baptismal name, let’s just say that.

Limoncello and related names, by the way, are actual surnames in the Social Security database, as well, so it is not a stretch to believe they could be proposed as first names.
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Isn’t Ikea a Swedish word for “particle board”?
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1ke said:
From the Catechism:

2165 In Baptism, the Christian receives his name in the Church. Parents, godparents, and the pastor are to see that he be given a Christian name. The patron saint provides a model of charity and the assurance of his prayer.
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sorry, i’m still confused as to what this means. is everyone supposed to have a saint’s name? or just nothing against christian value?
 
angell1 said:
sorry, i’m still confused as to what this means. is everyone supposed to have a saint’s name? or just nothing against christian value?
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It ought to be a name that has Christian value. Typically, that is a saint’s name, a virtue, or some other positive good. A common strategy is to combine a Christian name with a neutral name, if the neutral name is something the parents really like. That is how something like Maya Marie could be used.
 
Bruised_Reed said:
But they were born at the hospital where her friend worked! Apparently there are identically named kids that went to the school where a friend’s mom worked. There must be dozens of kids with these names. :hmmm:
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The jello names were not at the hospital where the friend worked. They were in the introduction to a story about actual names found a the list from the Social Security Administration of names recently used. This is the list from which “most popular names” are compiled, only these were on the “least used” end of the frequency spectrum.

I’m willing to believe that the names in the introduction were the stuff of urban myth, because upon re-checking the story the authors did not make a claim about them, but I don’t think the government slipped fake names into their database for fun.
 
When I was born, the local diocese required that a child have the full name of a saint – no abbreviations. So, anyone named Nancy had the legal name Ann, Peggy had to be Margaret, Sally had to be Sarah, etc.

Luckily, they changed that. 🙂
 
AnnArbor said:
When I was born, the local diocese required that a child have the full name of a saint – no abbreviations. So, anyone named Nancy had the legal name Ann, Peggy had to be Margaret, Sally had to be Sarah, etc.

Luckily, they changed that. 🙂
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Do you mean that the child’s legal name and the name on the baptismal record would not have matched at all under the old rules? Yes, I can see where that could be a problem!
 
EasterJoy said:
It ought to be a name that has Christian value. Typically, that is a saint’s name, a virtue, or some other positive good. A common strategy is to combine a Christian name with a neutral name, if the neutral name is something the parents really like. That is how something like Maya Marie could be used.
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ah ok makes sense. i think if we stick with names with good meanings, we can increase the list of saint names eventually. it gets a bit redundant if everyone starts having the same name after a while

not that i agree with trendy names, the things people make up are just weird. but there are a lot of nice names out there that are not yet associated with a particular saint. and saints names were unique the first time one got cannonized. there’s even a saint saturnina, believe it or not. and te names martin/martina are also quite pagan at first. thanks for the clarification though
 
EasterJoy said:
Do you mean that the child’s legal name and the name on the baptismal record would not have matched at all under the old rules? Yes, I can see where that could be a problem!
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Yes. Or parents forced to name their child something the child would never use in real life. For example, many people aren’t even aware that Nancy is a nickname for Ann and originally not a name in its own right.
 
angell1 said:
ah ok makes sense. i think if we stick with names with good meanings, we can increase the list of saint names eventually. it gets a bit redundant if everyone starts having the same name after a while

not that i agree with trendy names, the things people make up are just weird. but there are a lot of nice names out there that are not yet associated with a particular saint. and saints names were unique the first time one got cannonized. there’s even a saint saturnina, believe it or not. and te names martin/martina are also quite pagan at first. thanks for the clarification though
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It is important to make certain your child has a patron saint, and it is good to have that saint associated with the child’s own identity as expressed in his or her name. For instance, if you named your child with word for “charity” or “good works”, then you might choose Bl. Teresa of Calcutta as her patron, even though you didn’t choose “Teresa” as her name. The child might not be literally named after a saint, but instead named with a saintly attribute or a place name or something of that nature that is associated with the child’s patron or patrons.

You can even give a child a saint’s name but a different patron that can be associated with the name. For instance, the name “William” means “helmet” or “protection”. You might tell the child that this was a way to honor St. Paul (who bid us to “…take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God” (Eph. 6:17)) or St. Michael, the protecting archangel.

Why do that? Well, if your last name is Pike, you might think Will Pike has a nicer sound than Paul Pike or Mike Pike. That would be OK!
 
AnnArbor said:
Yes. Or parents forced to name their child something the child would never use in real life. For example, many people aren’t even aware that Nancy is a nickname for Ann and originally not a name in its own right.
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In a similar way, back in my mother’s day (Hispanic culture) all the girls were given the name Maria as a first name. Her middle name was Gertrudes. When I saw her birth certificate as a little girl, I was shocked. She explained to me that EVERYONE got the name Maria, and her mother and father called her “Tulitas”. That Gertrudis was her real name.
Same with Jose for the boys.
 
pianistclare said:
In a similar way, back in my mother’s day (Hispanic culture) all the girls were given the name Maria as a first name. Her middle name was Gertrudes. When I saw her birth certificate as a little girl, I was shocked. She explained to me that EVERYONE got the name Maria, and her mother and father called her “Tulitas”. That Gertrudis was her real name.
Same with Jose for the boys.
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There was a time when anyone, male or female, might have Our Lady or St. Joseph as a patron, particularly when given a new monastic name. St. John Vianney’s baptismal name was Jean Baptiste Marie; he was named with both John the Baptist and Our Lady in mind.
 
EasterJoy said:
There was a time when anyone, male or female, might have Our Lady or St. Joseph as a patron, particularly when given a new monastic name. St. John Vianney’s baptismal name was Jean Baptiste Marie; he was named with both John the Baptist and Our Lady in mind.
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This practice is mentioned in the old Catholic Encyclopedia article “Christian Names” as an “everyday occurrence” (at least at that time) in France.

(It singles out the use of “Marie” for naming boys and “Joseph” for girls; of course, “Marie” for girls and “Joseph” for boys wouldn’t have been all that remarkable.)
 
angell1;less common ones like artemis or isis [/QUOTE said:
Just want to point out that Artemas is a Catholic saint. He was a first century bishop and one of the seventy disciples of Jesus (Luke 10:1; Titus 3:12)
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angell1 said:
do catholics have to give their kids names of saints only?

less common ones like artemis or isis
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Just want to point out that Artemas is a Catholic saint. He was a first century bishop and one of the seventy disciples of Jesus (Luke 10:1; Titus 3:12)
 
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