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We are religious, and we WILL be baptizing our kids, but our denomination doesn't officially recognize god-parents (Presbyterian). Some people have them, but they play no role in the ceremony, and it's mostly people who are non-attenders and just want to include their friends, or are only familiar with what they see in the media, which is God parents.
When babies are baptized, the whole congregation is asked to help raise the child in the faith, instead of God parents.

I don't have god parents but my husband does and they're Catholic. We are going to be raising our kids in a Christian household, but not necessarily in any denomination so I don't think we"ll be having a ceremony that recognizes godparents.

I still am undecided, LO is almost a year old. I'm a non-practicing Catholic, DH is a non-practicing Protestant and we don't belong to any church (If you declare a religion where I live, you must pay taxes to that denominated church and i don't agree with that).
So, LO isn't baptized, but we did name godparents, more in the capacity to guide and help LO if needed. He has three, my brother, DH's sister and DH's best friend (who is a non practicing muslim).

My DH is non-practicing Catholic & I'm non-practicing Methodist, however we both consider ourselves religious/spiritual, we just have not been regularly attending church. We both agree that we will find a church that we both like once we start trying for a child. When it comes to Godparents it is important for me to choose someone who I know my child can look up to and go to for advice, I don't necessarily believe this person needs to be a regular church attender, but more someone who can guide them when needed & spiritual enough to give them the correct advice. I"m a Godmother to two little ones, & that's how their parents felt about me.

This is interesting, because godparents (for me) don't have anything to do with custody. It's more about guiding them and offering advice. I would hope if my son doesn't want to talk to me about something, he would ask a godparent.