Do You wait till the Eight days to name your child after delivery?

Hi there. Nope, we usually have a name given or decided right there and then, and then we lift our babies to the four winds, north, east, south, west... This is what my parents done with us as well... My ethnicity is "Maori" native people of New Zealand...

Usually people where I live name their children right away, unless they just haven't thought of a name yet. In fact, most people already have names ready long before their children are born, though some people will change their minds when they see the child and believe the name just doesn't fit them. We had our son's name (Dustin Xander) picked out several months before he was born. We picked it right after the ultrasound where we found out we were having a boy. And as soon as we saw him, we just knew we had chosen the right name for him. He's just such a Dusty. =P In both of the sets of ancestors that I came from (I'm part Native American and part Irish) you were likely in the old days to have one name as a child and then earn another name when you grew older, especially if you were a warrior or a religious leader or some other important figure. I've studied a lot of Celtic history, and many of the heroes especially got new names based on their deeds instead of keeping the name they were born with.