I don't know if the godparent as source for a name isn't secondary. In general practice children were named for someone declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. It was hoped that this act would protect the child as a Patron Saint interceding for it. How else to explain my own ancestor's practice in which the children of Jean and Francois were named David, Daniel and Jacob with their descendants being named David, Jacob Benjamin Rachel, Susanah, Lea, Jemima, etc. Note that all the children are named for Old Testament persons thus distinguishing them as Protestants denying the superstition noted above. Robert Demarest Cuminale