In old Turkey, there was a custom of naming a child only after she/he did a heroic thing. When the baby is born, a temporary name is chosen for it by her/his family. To be given a permanent name he/she had to deserve it. (for example, by learning to shoot arrows, doing a useful thing during a battle, or hunting a bear.) That given name relates to what was done and accomplished . For this reason, after I learned about this custom when I was a kid, I named my parakeet "cicikuş" which means "pretty bird" in English because the first word he said was "pretty bird":)

In the old Turks(very very old), there was a custom/tradition where naming a child can only be done only after she/he had done a heroical thing. When the baby was born, a temporary name was chosen for the baby by her/his family. She/he has to do something meaningful/useful to deserve a permanent name. For example, by learning how to shoot arrows, doing a useful thing during a battle, or hunting a bear. That given name has to be related to what was done. After I learned this custom when I was a kid, I named my parakeet "cicikuş" which means "pretty bird" in English because the first word he said was "pretty bird":)