Continued from Part 1 & Part 2,this article looks at the following culture naming rites,rituals and ceremony:

(7) Sikh - the Mool Mantra
(8) Native American

(9) Hawaiian

(10) Latvian

(7) Sikh- The Mool Mantra

• At birth, the Mool mantra, the core teaching of Sikhism is whispered into the baby’s ear.
• Naming ceremony:the ceremony takes place in a Garudwaras or place of worship, during the first year of life. It may be performed at any time from the end of the first month to the end of the 12th month. The parents choose the date and number of guests to be invited. Prayers are offered asking for a special blessing of good health, long lifeand the Sikh way for the child. The Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh Holy Book, is then opened at random.The first letter of the first word of the hymn on that page is used as the first letter of the child’s name. After the family selects an appropriate name, the members of the congregation give their approval with a holy cheer.
• Given names are common to either gender. The word Kaur, meaning “princess” is added after a girl’s name. Singh meaning “lion” is added for a boy.

(8) Native American

• The names are often created for the individual and relate to something unique about the child.
• Due to strong belief in each person’s individuality, traditional American Indian parents seldomgive their own names to their children.
• They might choose a nmae that honors a proud event in the life of an ancestor.
• To the Delaware a person’s true name is a sacred gift, and only visionary name-givers are allowed to choose it.
• Among the Shawnee, two name-givers ponder various possibilities during a night vigil. The next morning each name-giver offers a single name to the parents, and the parents choose the one that will be given to the child

(9) Hawaiian

• In Hawai, the entire family participates in the name giving
• A child’s name may be based on special events, people, places or created by parents from an incident at birth.
• Traditional Hawaiian names are long and have very picturesque meanings.
• Many of the names popular in Hawaii today are adaptations of contemporary English words
• Some of the loveliest Hawaiian names are those that come to a relative “from heaven”,in the form of dream, omen, sign or inner voice.

(10) Latvian

• Although a vast majority of the population is Christian, Latvian, worldview and traditional harkens back to their oldest religion, based in nature and on natural deities.
• They believed that Lamia ( goddess of fate ) determines a child’s future at the moment of birth.
• Nine days after a child is born the god-parents host a two-day name-giving ceremony, or Krustaba, at the parents’ house.