guideparent

A person who, at a child's naming ceremony, agrees to help raise the child (especially in a non-religious setting)

Noun

  1. A person who, at a child's naming ceremony, agrees to help raise the child (especially in a non-religious setting)
    • The guideparents were very nervous during the naming ceremony.
    • There’s a section where the guideparents and parents make their pledges to the child, usually promising to be there unconditionally and to support them always. - 2018, Peter McGuire, “‘We’d be hypocritical standing in a...
    • Our experience is that almost all humanist naming ceremonies have guideparents involved. - 2019, Richard Godwin, “'It locks you into a disintegrating friendship for life': the new rules of godparenting”, in The Guardian:

Origin

From guide + parent.

Forms

guideparents