baptismal name

Until last year, John Henry Newman, as he is known by his baptismal name, was studying to become a priest at a Roman Catholic seminary in Yangon.

She took the baptismal name Anthony, becoming known as Chloe Anthony Wofford.

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.

I did not want anything too typical, like my Catholic baptismal name, Joseph.

He renounced his baptismal name, James, and with it Christianity, and ceased to write fiction in English.