Naming ceremonies in 2010s: Used-name acknowledgements

What is the difference between baptism and christening? In everyday English they overlap; some churches treat christening as the naming-and-welcome aspect of infant baptism. Local usage varies. Do all religions have a naming rite? Many do: aqeeqah and tahnīk traditions in Islam, brit and naming in Judaism, Hindu namakarana, Sikh Naam Karan, and others. Forms differ. None are destiny science here.

돌 is a first-birthday rite; the name is often already registered. It can still be a public name-and-child theatre, sometimes with 돌림자 already chosen as kin design. Only if the state says so. Most rites change the social name’s publicity, not the koseki or the birth file. Because rites encode theology, kin and hospitality. Depth is not the same as legal force.

Are secular naming days a real thing? Yes — humanist and civil ceremonies exist in several countries as a non-religious public welcome. Should I pick a name that “fits” the rite? Saints’ names fit some christenings; other rites have other pools. That is liturgy, not luck. For centuries the church book was the file. Then the state took the file and left the church the theatre.