Elwyn
I don't know about the twice bit. But Once was possible possible in all juristictions. Look at a birth cert image from England and Wales Column 10 is Name entered after registration in 1837 and on my mother's 1943 cert issued on the registration day. A baptismal name/ a forname can be added or altered up to 12 months after the birth by the 1953 Births & Deaths Act currently in force and the previous back to the 1836 Act (then up to 6 months after).
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/20/section/13/enactedAlso possible to re-register name/birth after Legitimization by subsequent marriage of parents.
forms and payment in appendix 1874 Act
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/37-38/88/schedules/enactedAs Ireland used the Adaptment of Enactments to continue use of a lot of pre-partition legislation, was the same there, the 1863 Act + Births and Deaths Registration Act (Ireland), 1880, with a 12 month window. Parents not recognising the sacrament of baptism could also change a name themselves using Form B name not given in Baptism.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/43-44/13/pdfs/ukpga_18800013_en.pdf [section 8 and Schedule 1 forms A,B,C]
From 1956 a TWO year window was allowed in Northern Ireland, that is different from England & Wales.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisro/1956/61/contents/madeBut in Ireland under the Vital Statistics and Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1952 there is no time limit.
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Registration of birth—removal of time limit for registration of name or of alteration of name."
https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1952/act/8/enacted/en/htmlCivil Registration Act 2004 (Ireland) still there
https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2004/act/3/section/25/enacted/en/html#sec25Scotland it was also possible to add a name after Baptism by the original 1854 Act (up to six months after, so the same as the original 1836 E&W Act).
An Act to provide for the better regulation of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in Scotland. [7 Aug 1854]
http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/View?path=Browse/Legislation%20(by%20date)&active=yes&mno=4048XXXII. Name given in Baptism after Registration may be registered within Six Months. ...
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XXXIII. Provision for Name given without Baptism after Registration. In the Case of any Child of Parents not recognizing the Sacrament of Baptism or Infant Baptism, it shall be lawful for such Parents or the Guardians of such Child, within Six Months after the Birth of any such Child shall have been registered, or if after Six Months, then only with the written Authority of the Sheriff, granted on a Statement of the Circumstances submitted to him, when any Name shall have been given to any such Child by the Parents or Guardians of such Child, other than that by which it may have been registered, to deliver to the Registrar in whose Custody the Register of the Birth of such Child shall be, a Certificate in the Form of the Schedule (E.) to this Act annexed, or to the like Effect, signed by such Parents or Guardians, whereupon, and upon Payment of a Fee of One Shilling, such Registrar shall, without Erasure as aforesaid, register therein the Name of such Child; and such Certificate shall be certified and transmitted by the Registrar to the Registrar General in the like Manner and to the like Effect as is herein-before prescribed regarding Certificates in relation to Names given in Baptism.1836 England & Wales wording:
XXIV. And be it enacted, That if any Child born in England whose Birth shall have been registered as aforesaid shall, within Six Calendar Months next after it shall have been so registered, have any Name given to it in Baptism, the parent or Guardian of such Child, or other Person procuring such Name to be given, may within Seven Days next after such Baptism, procure and deliver to the registrar or Superintendent Registrar, in whose Custody the Register of Birth of the Child may then happen to be, a Certificate, according to the Form of Schedule (G.) to this Act annexed, signed by the Minister who shall have performed the Rite of Baptism, which Certificate such Minister is hereby required to deliver immediately after the Baptism, whenever the same shall then be demanded, on Payment of the Fee of One Shilling, which he shall be therefore entitled to receive; and the said Registrar or Superintendent Registrar, upon Receipt of such Certificate and on Payment of the Fee of One Shilling, which he shall therefore be entitled to receive, shall without any Erasure of the original Entry, forthwith register therein that the Child was baptized by such Name, and the Registrar shall thereupon certify upon the said Certificate the additional Entry so made, and shall forthwith send the said Certificate through the Post Office to the Registrar General.The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 allows one change of name and one change of surname in respect of any one child after Baptism under clause 4, but sub-clause 5 for teenagers/adults wishing to eg adopt step-fathers name were allowed one change of name and three changes of surname
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1965/49/section/43/enactedExample of a baptismal forname change 1896 (bottom row)
https://irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/birth_returns/births_1896/02176/1824139.pdfRegistered as Joseph Irvine Wetherall 13 Apr 1896 for birth 29 Mar 1896. David Irwin by baptism 3 Mar 1897.