About a week ago, a message was posted to either the Cheshire or the Birkenhead list erroneously stating that, in the context of people assuming different names to their given forenames, Catholics take an additional name at First Communion. Not having seen any clarification/correction about this I thought I would contribute thus. It is not at First Communion (age c8) that this happens but at Confirmation (age c14) when a saint's name is taken. However, in my experience, a Catholic (I am in England) would not regard it as an 'official name' to be included in a passport, job, credit etc application nor in a marriage certificate. Still less would it be likely to be adopted as the name to be known by day to day. My Confirmation name is Dominic but, much as I cherish it, I have never used it in addition to my birth certificate names. Gil Upton