African baby Names
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Anonymous
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Hello friends,
I with my family will be soon visiting Africa, on business trip. We are soon expecting a new family member to join us, who would possibly be born in Africa. And we want to give our baby an African name so that he can easily mix up and make friends easily. I am finding little difficult to find. Please help. |
Anonymous
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You're going on a buiness trip while pregnant and you're staying long enough that your child will make friends?
Here is a list to give you some ideas. http://babynameguide.mobi/african-baby-names.asp?strCat=African |
Anonymous
Africa is a continent with 54 unique diverse countries. East, West, North and South Africans are all unique in the cultures. Please educate yourself on this so that you learn more about the specific country your child will be born in and ask specific baby name recommendations for that country. I'm not sure if this adoption or not but please make the effort to educate yourself. If your child is originally from Africa please familiarize yourself with the child's country of origin. |
Anonymous
Exactly. Ideally, you should pick a name that reflects both the correct country and tribe. It would be strange to give a child born in West Africa an East African name and vice versa. |
Anonymous
| You're going to pick a name from a culture that's not yours? Look up "APPROPRIATION" in the dictionary of being a decent human being. |
Anonymous
OP's post makes no sense. Troll? |
Anonymous
| Malaria, for a girl. |
Anonymous
Pp here not troll. I'm from Central Africa. I can't believe people, like you, still don't know Africa is a continent and not a country. U.S. Schools systems really need to incorporate more geography classes in schools. Google this information. A Algeria Angola B Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi C Cabo Verde Cameroon Central African Republic (CAR) Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Cote d'Ivoire D Djibouti E Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia G Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau K Kenya L Lesotho Liberia Libya M Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique N Namibia Niger Nigeria R Rwanda S Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland T Tanzania Togo Tunisia U Uganda Z Zambia Zimbabwe |
Anonymous
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I dated three Nigerian (Yoruba) men before I married a man from a different West African country and was so bummed that I couldn't use "Ayo" for a daughter anymore. It would have fit DD well. DS would have had Babatunde as a middle name because he IS his grandfather returned. Oh well. Ask around while you're there. There are so many cool names that fit particular circumstance. You may even be able to find a name that means "born far from home." Obviously, you'll draw from the community in which you're ensconced---not some random name from another African country. That would defeat the whole point of naming the child in this manner. "We were living in Kenya the year she was born, so we named her [Zambian name]." Er, what?! |
Anonymous
| Are you white looking for an African name? Why would he not make friends because he has an American name? |
Anonymous
+1 NP here. OP what country, or if you don't want to reveal that, what region? Many of us on DCUM have lived in one or more countries in Africa (myself included) and could give suggestions but we're not going to do big generalizations like you have done. Your post was not too clear. |
Anonymous
Africans are capable of saying "Elizabeth" or even "Taylor," "Jane," "Annie," "Rose," or even boys' names. I'm sure you don't mean to suggest that the naming has anything to do with the capacity of Africans to pronounced the child's Western name, right? You mean to commemorate your family's visit by taking on an African name to honor the people hosting you or this family memory, certainly. Cuz that first reason would be completely insane and racist to the point where I wouldn't trust you to do your job this business trip and would pull you from the assignment immediately so as not to completely embarrass the agency or org you're there to represent. Please clarify: Are you sentimental or racist? Knowing which would help DCUM guide you. |
Anonymous
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OP if you are not a troll then you need to not only know that Africa is made up of over 50 countries , but that also within the those countries there are many tribes each with their own way of naming children . Not only are Africans capable of saying foreign names but a large number do have foreign first names .. And why on earth would your child not be able to make friends because of his or her name ? Is this what pertains where you live?
--West African baffled by this ignorance |
Anonymous
You might be having a hard time because you are the only person in the world who doesn't realize that Africa is a continent, not a country. There is no such thing as an "African" baby name, you dolt. |
Anonymous
Latrine is another great African girl's name, OP. How about Dengue for a boy? Jaundice is a unisex name. |