baptismal name
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of baptismal name
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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The last pope to choose the name Leo was Pope Leo XIII, an Italian whose baptismal name was Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci.
From BBC ● May 9, 2025
At 12, Ms. Morrison made the personal step of converting to Catholicism, the faith followed by a branch of her extended family, and took Anthony as her baptismal name.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2019
Born Chloe Wofford, she changed her name in college: Toni from St. Anthony, her baptismal name when she converted to Catholicism as a child, and Morrison from an early marriage that ended in divorce.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2019
He renounced his baptismal name, James, and with it Christianity, and ceased to write fiction in English.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2018
He thought about Rocky then; his baptismal name had been Augustine, and “Rocky” had been as close as he had wanted to come to the Indian name old Grandma’s sister had given him.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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