Sometimes children are named for their baptismal sponsor and sometimes they are not. Of course if your ancestor was not baptized or was not baptized as a child, then it does not matter.
The best way to know what was going on at the time and place of interest to your research is to read the baptismal entries for 3 pages before and 3 pages after your person of interest. How many entries were there? How many were named for their sponsors? How many were not?
Now you know what was going on in the time and place where your person was baptized and you are not repeating something you don’t know is true.
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I was not named for anyone, but my BIL and his 3 siblings were all given their godparent’s name as their middle name.