baptismal name

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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 age 12, Toni, known then as Chloe Wofford, converted to Catholicism and selected Anthony as her baptismal name.

From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 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