Middle Names and Religious Names
Hungarians do not commonly use middle names (called second given names because of the Eastern name order) or their corresponding initials. While it is increasingly frequent that they are given one, they tend to choose one they prefer to use.
When baptised, a child can get an additional name (baptismal name), especially if there is no saint who bears their name so they need a name a patron saint is associated with. In confirmation, children receive another given name, but it is not used. Both the baptismal and the confirmation names have religious significance only, and they are not on any official records.
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Famous quotes containing the words middle, names and/or religious:
“In the dead waste and middle of the night.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.”
—Tertullian (c. 150–230)