Patron Shortlist
A baptismal name is rarely chosen alone. Gather a few candidates, set them side by side, and send the list to the people you will ask.
Every other site hands you one saint. This page does the opposite: you build a shortlist. Search by the feast days near your birthday, by what a saint is patron of, or by a word in the name or the description. Add the ones you keep coming back to, look at them in one table, and copy the link. Whoever opens it sees the same list. The final spelling and the final choice belong to you and your parish.
Find candidates
Feast days within a few days of your birthday. Month and day only; the year is never asked.
Wikidata records a patronage for 142 of the 6,299 people here, so this filter is small on purpose.
Matches
Loading the list of 6,299 saints and blesseds.
Your shortlist
0 of 12Nothing on the list yet. Add a name from the matches above, or open a month below and pick from there.
Names, feast days, status, patronages and descriptions come from Wikidata (CC0), fetched on 2026-09-06. Nothing is added to them. A missing description is left missing.
What this page is not
It does not pick a name for you, and it has no standing to. A confirmation or baptismal name is settled between you, your sponsor and your parish. The names here are candidates, not a verdict. Saints and blesseds are marked apart because both are used as baptismal names in practice, and because the difference matters to some parishes. The one-line descriptions are Wikidata's own words; where Wikidata has none, this page shows none rather than write one.
Browse by feast month
Every saint and blessed with a feast day in that month, in date order.
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