Naming is an act of authority. In Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on (Genesis 2:19), the Lord creates every beast of the field and every fowl of the heavens and brings them to Adam "to see by what name he would call it. And whatever Adam called the living animal, that was its name."
Notice the divine patience. God does not tell Adam the names. He waits. Adam looks at each creature and speaks, and whatever he says becomes permanent. The Targumist is showing us partnership at its deepest: a universe in which God deliberately leaves a piece of its own naming to someone else.
Later Jewish tradition will expand this. The Talmud (Avodah Zarah 3b) imagines Adam's wisdom as so great that he could see the true essence of each creature and give it the name that matched. He was not guessing. He was reading. And in that reading, he became a partner in the final act of creation.