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Parents of newborn girls tinker with Jewish tradition to create meaningful ceremonies for their daughters. 
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Hindus hold the namkarna, or naming ceremony, to bless a newborn with prayers and good wishes from family and friends, in an age-old tradition.
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one of the things they’ve restored at the camp is the practice of having a baby naming ceremony where infants are given a Tsilhqot’in name.
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Transgender individuals frequently mark their transition by exchanging their birth name for a new, self-chosen name.
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One of the reasons Jewish parents were historically urged to give their children culturally appropriate names was to stave off the threat of assimilation. Of course, considering that the top 10 American baby names for boys in 2017 included Noah (No. 2), Benjamin (6), Elijah (8) and Jacob (10), according to the U.S. Social Security database, the question becomes: who assimilated whom?
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Commentator Scott Thybony had the honor recently of attending a Hopi baby naming ceremony. His good friend, tribal judge Delfred Leslie, had a new
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This way, my daughter’s baby naming ceremony symbolized coming full circle. Together with family and friends, we welcomed my daughter into our community and fulfilled a tradition in the most meaningful way imaginable.
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Neither Allan and myself are religious and in May 2011 we had a humanist wedding which was so nice and very personal. So when our daughter Rylie was born we both knew we would not be having a reli...
Clare's insight:
Hurrah for celebrating naming.
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