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Children were baptised as soon as possible, following an ancient prescription. In Zeanuri (B), the following rule was followed until the mid-20^th 20th century: if the child was born in the early morning, they would be baptised in the afternoon of the same day, ''jaiotako egunen barruen;'' if that was not possible, it would the following day, ''jaio ta lehenengo egunian'' and no later than the second day, ''jaio ta egun bi barru. ''This would ensure that the newborn would not die without being a Christian, ''ez eitean hil kristiñau izan barik, ''and without being able to go to heaven. This importance given to baptising the newborn as soon as possible, ''len bait lasterren, ''was very common (Nabarniz, Orozko, Urduliz-B; Bidegoian, Gatzaga<ref>Pedro M^a ARANEGUI. ''Gatzaga: una aprox imación a la vida de Salinas de Léniz a comienzos del siglo XX . ''San Sebastián , 1986, p. 55.</ref>-G).

The surveys of Ateneo and other authors record a practice that was current in the first decades of the 20^th 20th century. It was as follows: when several children died in a family one after another, a godfather and godmother were not chosen beforehand for the following child. In that case, the people who went with the newborn to baptise the child would stand in the porch to the church during the religious ceremony and the first man and woman who left the church would be chosen as godfather and godmother.

Different factors came into play when choosing the baptism name. In general, the Saints Calendar was the main source of inspiration until the first quarter of the 20^th 20th century and, even, until more recently.