Does your country have coultoural norms regarding chosing the first name of children ?
In Greece and Cyprus the primary tradition is naming children after their grandparents.
Specifically first born children receive the first name of a paternal grandparent while second born children receive the name of a maternal one. The choice is done gender-wise meaning boys take the name of a grandfather while girls take the name of a grandmother. For thirdborn or later children this motive continues or sometimes parents are "free" to choose the name themselves.
In fact parents "entirely" chosing their children's name is pretty rare and is often seen as "westernised" and it has emerged quite late in the Greek speaking world.
The alleged meaning of this tradition is that it serves as a "tribune" for a parent to his own parents as the grandparent's name will persist in later generations .
I wonder if other european countries have or used to have any traditions regarding naming children that basically limit the parents choice on that matter.