Godparent
Synonyms for "godparent" (8 found)
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Translations
56 translations across 31 languages.
Asturian
2 entries- madrina noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- padrín noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 乾娘 /干娘 noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- 乾爹 /干爹 noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- 教母 noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- 教父 noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Danish
1 entries- fadder noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Dutch
2 entries- peetmoeder noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- peetvader noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Esperanto
1 entries- baptogepatro noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Estonian
4 entries- ristiema noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- ristiisa noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- ristivanem noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- vader noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Finnish
3 entries- kummi noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- kummisetä noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- kummitäti noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
French
2 entries- marraine noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- parrain noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Galician
1 entries- padriño noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Georgian
1 entries- ნათლია noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
German
2 entries- Pate noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- Patin noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Greek
2 entries- νονά noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- νονός noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Hawaiian
1 entries- makua papakema noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Hungarian
1 entries- keresztszülő noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Ido
1 entries- baptogenitoro noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Indonesian
1 entries- wali baptis noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Ingrian
1 entries- kooma noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Irish
1 entries- cara as Críost noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Japanese
3 entries- 代父母 noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- 名付け親 noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- 教父母 noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Pätter noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Macedonian
1 entries- кум noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- dåpsvitne noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- fadder noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- dåpsvitne noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- fadder noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Old English
1 entries- godsibb noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Polish
2 entries- chrzestna noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- chrzestny noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Portuguese
2 entries- madrinha noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- padrinho noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Romanian
2 entries- naș noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- nașă noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Russian
2 entries- крёстная мать noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- крёстный оте́ц noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Swedish
1 entries- fadder noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Ukrainian
2 entries- хрещена noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- хрещений батько noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
Volapük
4 entries- hispönan noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- jispönan noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- spönan noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
- spönanef noun (person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.