what determines the name...?

yea, its true, in our Country particularly in a simple place where I grew! people try to give name to a child with any saint's name believing that when the time he/she will die, there is a saint that will meet him/her wherever he/she goes! My grandma tries to put Maria after the chosen name my mom and dad got for me, but when I started my college, we found out that in my original BC there is no MAria only in baptismal, so we need to drop it since its not valid!

yes you're right. but in my situation i just give a name for my child from the first letter of my name and my husband name, my son's name combined of two name with initial of A and C.

In our family, in the U.S., we usually name our children after ourselves, mother or father or grandparents. We also give our children our own last name in most cases. Sometimes we choose a name for our child just because we like the name.

In my culture, if I say American culture, it has become custom to name the baby what ever you want! Traditionally, family lineage was considered and honored, but there are fewer babies per family now, and whatever the birth parents wish, becomes the name of the baby!

I live in the UK I dont have any religion or strong beliefs and when we named our daughters we chose names that we liked we didnt choose them because they had any special meaning simply because we liked them and thought they suited our little girls when they were born.