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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

I can find nothing in OPs post that indicates that s/he doesn't realize "that Africa is a continent".  If the name in question is selected from ANY country in African, then is it not an African name?!

I am from NYC and I have an African name.  When people inquire about my name I simply say it's African and tell them the meaning. Not once in 48 years has someone asked me which country specifically.

Sheesh! [/quote]

I am curious why you tell them your name is African, rather than just saying what culture or language it comes from. When someone asks what kind of name Siobhan or Svetlana are, don't most people reply Irish or Russian, not European? DD has a name from the African country where her father was born. When asked, I say the country, not the continent. It would never occur to me to say the continent.
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Because so many people have no idea what countries are in Africa outside of the very common ones. Plus, I'm pretty sure that 70% of the time the person asking is less interested in the specific country of origin and thinking more along the lines that it is a made up name and waiting to hear some wild story of how my parents came up with it. I'm AA and I get that a lot. [/quote]

I'm West African and when AAs tell me their name is "African" instead of specifying the country, I assume they are ignorant or that their parents did indeed make up the name and just happened to stumble upon a spelling that matched an African one. Imagine if someone named Siobhan said their name was "European." It would be odd and lead people to assume they are ignorant of the specific origins of their own name. Just an FYI.[/quote]

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