I allways thought that the mother and father decide the name of their new born child, but to my astonisment, I also heard that in some cases the dadi/dada jaan give the name to their grandchildern.
How many would let the grandparents do the naming?
Just asking for no particular reason.
I would, but I’d protest if they suggested Boota khan or Shameem Ara type names :o
Waise my phophu had named me phir I decided to change it, so basically I’ve given name to myself 
Sabah, you changed your own name, how can that be ? What was ur original name ?
I know my elder sister was named by my grandma .. she wanted to give me some name too, but my mom named me.
After that my brothers were named by both my mom and dad, the last sister was named after a pick session, put some selected names on a slips of paper and pick one, you dont know whats inside, only after u open the slip you picked.
Seriously I wouldnt be able to do it with this slip pick method, I am so choosy, normal names dont appeal to me.
As for grandparents naming, well lets see, I will listen to every suggestion but if you ask me, the parents should be the one to decide in the end, there should be no hard feelings from anyside.
well there is no problem i guess in grand parents naming a child but certainly dont have to be very funny sort of name like mentioned.
i would love that frankly.
kids who have their grand parents alive r the most lucky kids.
and Alhamdollilah i have been among those n believe me or not those gone days were so beautiful that i can't express them in words.
Saadia it's not about hard feelings. My sister asked her father in-law to name her son, her FIL was so proud. It means the world to our elders to see us respecting them, one way or the other. Naming a child is considered to be an honor for them.
Phupho named me Samira, abhi what kind of name is that? All the others have pretty neat names, she probably didn't like my head thus gave me a weird name :D (she named most of my cousins as well)
hmmmm....
for our eldest we asked everyone in family ....n all agreed on one name .....later my husband revealed it was his most facvourite name ....!!
for second one we both decided .....n lil one ...my doll ...i named her !!
its right of parents to name their child ...but it looks a decent act if grandparents r given the honour!!
tell me about it.. the whole janjaal pura wanted to name me.. hence the three names..
oh and don't ask. :p
my folks are zany. they never agree on anything. mom named me one thing and kept caling me that ever since. dad gave me my birth name and calls me that ever since. i am the poster child for abcd. 
i love to tell the history of my naming :p
basically my nani named me. but guess where she got the name from? well when i was born there used to be this drama on TV where a character was named Sana. so she liked that name and decided to call me that :D . but before that drama i guess Sana was a guy's name. hehehe...imagine that! but i suppose sooooooo many people liked that name that i knew 3 other sana's in 3rd grade!
but my brother's name is picked by both my mom and dad. he has 2 names...his first (ahmed) was what my mum liked and his second was what my dad liked. and funny thing, both of these names are names of the Prophet (pbuh). the whole family calls him by his second name, while outside people (the gora system) call him Ahmed.
As for grandparents naming, well lets see, I will listen to every suggestion but if you ask me, the parents should be the one to decide in the end, there should be no hard feelings from anyside
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I agree with you Saadia. If i've a child Insh'Allah
I will listen to my parents in law suggestion.
But if i dont like the name's then i and my hubby will give
the name of our child.
yeah and my name was given by my fathers cousin....khuda janay wo kahan say beech main aa gayeen....
but grand parents consider it as an honor..when they are asked to give names....so i wont mind just for the sake of their hapinesss...akhir kisi na kisi tarha to un ko khush karna chahiyay..:-D
My father-in-law's parents named his kids. He was a very religious man so all the names came in dreams. But oddly enough my husbands name was misread in the letter so he didn't get his actual name. My in-laws then wanted to name our daughter but their suggestions didn't really stick. So I found a name that we all agreed on. But it wasn't easy. My m-i-l was not happy about it.
As you may know already i've just had a baby boy and naming him was really hard. we had thought of names while i was expecting, but everyone had a re-think and we asked all of our elders, no one cud agree on anything, in the end I chose the name and eveyone is happy with it.
My cusins insisted that Ali be his middle name as theyre sons have Ali as middle names. so I decided on Amaan Ali Mehmood.
We 3 (my brother, my sister and I) were all named by our Dadiamma.