What's in a name? Part 2

To name a child is a hectic rather mind-blogging task for the parents, for it has got geo-political, socio-political or family custom or tradition, and at times depending on the parent's national pride or the lack of it plays a crucial role too.
One might ask how a politics can play a role in naming a child? It's not only geo-political or socio-political factor, but also internal-family politics from both parental or maternal hierarchy forms a major dimension to choosing a name for the child.
1) Inter-family political factor:
On one side, the husband or father of the child would want his own choice as to choose as per his wish, like if the child is a boy, he would name it after his paternal grandfather or his father and arrive at a direct import of name or a combination of their past name plus his own personal liking and he would go for a permutation combination of both.
If it's a girl child, so is the case, to choose from a permutation combination of his grandmother or mother or combination thereof.
On other side, the wife or mother of the child would equally want to prove her myth here to enforce her rights to liberty (after-all, we live in 20th or 21st century, women have equal rights) so she would propose a combination of her grandfather or father and/or grandmother or mother or a combination thereof be it boy or girl child, respectively, in that order.
I have observed in different geographies how such naming pattern works. Being more familiar from southern part of India, let me illustrate few examples.
In certain communities like Chettiyars and Nagarathaars, depending on the volume of children in the family and whether it is boys or girls as the case may be, the first child would be named after the paternal grandfather or grandmother; the second child would be named after the maternal grandfather or grandmother; if there are more than two children, the picking of naming extends to the parent's uncle or aunts in either side hierarchies.  Thus they ensure not to leave aside family tradition, at the same time, they somehow forgo if the child's parent have any choice on their own and that would have been totally disregarded in these community, at times. This is not to generalize the case here.
In some communities in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka or Kerala, the child would have two initials; besides the father's first name, the family's native town or village name would be part of the child's name.
In Kerala, many a times, the child's name or initials may not include the parent's name, but the name of the house or village or the town name could become a mandatory inclusion for the child.
2) Socio-political factor:(To be continued)