From primitive societies to modern societies, human has given names to their children, each other, animals and objects around him. While doing this, they are affected by several elements. The purpose of this study is to analyze, through which name giving criteria people make their name choice for their children. It’s possible to see German as a pioneer of the western culture and Turkish as the pioneer of the eastern culture. The criteria, that affect the name choices in this languages and name giving traditions and their features, that come up through the name giving criteria are analyzed separately in both languages. After that, the name giving traditions of these languages are compared in terms of their similarities and differences through examples. At the same time the name giving traditions before the acceptance of both Islam and Christianity are mentioned. After the analysis it’s aimed to identify how far both societies are affected by the sociocultural name giving traditions and to conclude that name giving ceremonies are applied with influence of cultural and religious aspects.