What names should you not name a Catholic boy?

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If your name your boy “Rayquaza,” you can always call him “Ray” for short and people will just assume he has the normal name “Raymond.”

EDIT: I just realized “Roselia” would sound fine as a standard human name.

I guess some Pokémon names do work. It’s Digimon names you’ve got to be careful of considering the fact that they all end in -mon and it would be painfully obvious that it’s a Digimon name.
 
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It would appear that Spinner is an actual surname. Perhaps there are some Bridget Spinners out there.
 
Jose Pagan. I remember him!! Although it was more pronounced as Pay-gone.
 
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This doesn’t have to do with being Catholic but I would personally avoid adding any unnecessary y’s Into the spelling of a boy’s name. I don’t like that for girls either but it just looks terribly feminine and doesn’t suit an adult male in my opinion. Think Cayden, Jayden, etc.

I don’t like “creative” spelling in general. Basically just avoid spelling the name as if you let a 6 year old fill out the birth certificate.
 
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Jose Pagan. I remember him!! Although it was more pronounced as Pay-gone.
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Pagan was straight from Puerto Rico, if his descendants are here in America, they’ll have an opportunity to change it to an American pronunciation.

I’m sure that 1st generation Germans pronounced Wagner as “Vogg-ner” just like they did in Germany.
 
I’m a firm believer in classic names that don’t go out of style. I think it’s nearly an obligation to name your kid something respectable
 
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I don’t like “creative” spelling in general. Basically just avoid spelling the name as if you let a 6 year old fill out the birth certificate.
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I agree with this. The baby may grow up to become a banker or a broker, people don’t want to give a big check to someone with an unprofessional name
 
It used to be that Catholic cemeteries would give you heck if the name of the deceased was not that of a saint. We went through this with my father when he died. He was a convert and his mother had given him one of those “Timmy or Tommy” type diminutive names. She had the same type name herself and the family was from a rural area where you had people named Billy Joe and Bobby Ray and whatever as their given names.

The cemetery guy gave my mother all kinds of trouble over putting Dad’s legal name on his tombstone. They insisted it had to be changed to the formal “saint’s name”. The problem was, that wasn’t Dad’s given, legal name. Mom finally prevailed, but it was just a huge annoyance in a time of grief.

I think the cemetery has since eased up a bit on their hangups. I would hope so anyway. When a person converts, they aren’t necessarily going to change their given name over to match some Doctor of the Church.
 
It’s Wisenheimer…Wise en heimer - get it.

I don’t know why he was called Bud but it could have been because of his
affable nature.
 
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