ELAFANTASY:

bello is an italian word which means handsome and for girls its bella meaning beautiful. ciao

nnokwa042:
papa and mama is latin word in whole europe is mama only in bretain u can hear mum or mother, but baba that afonja use is arabic words

hemsquare:
Bello is an Italian, Spanish surname from bello 'handsome/beautiful' (Late Latin bellus), hence a nickname for a handsome man. In medieval Italy the word was also applied as a personal name, which also gave rise to the surname.
Source : Wikipedia.

hatchy:
The name is of English origin.

It means "Bell" that is "Low" tone in English

Demmzy15:
Yeah, just like Muhammad to Mohammed

Demmzy15:
Hello people,

I was curious, just wanted to know the origin of this name. I've noticed that all tribes bear the this, so anyone who knows can educate us.

Thank you!

blarkraimez:

As I am also called Bello myself.... i realised it's an italian name meaning beautiful... also here in Germany most of my italian friends attest to my findings anytime I tell them my name is Bello dapo... they emphasised on how beautiful the name is in italian.... the only explanation to the name crossing to Nigerian was the Roman Catholic missionaries..... As most people belief it's a Muslim name which is not... not in the Qur'an and never an Arabic name

mrlaw93:
All tribes call their father papa.. watz d origin?
Your question is same as someone asking why the sky is blue..

GetMeRight:

Mr baboon, IPOB jew. What is the Yoruba name for father if "baba" is an Arabic word?

kjhova:


Dear OP,

It is heart breaking that 5 pages into this simple question, no one is close to the answer enough due to the acute knowledge of history among Nigerians

The name/surname/root name Bello is common in Spain, Portugal, Nigeria and many parts of South America (due to Spanish colonization) & West Africa (due to Muslim influence).

Let me connect the dots for you.

Bello (and its other variants; Barro, Ballo etc) were common Tuareg/Berber names in the 10th century even as these tribes were converted to Islam during the 1st Caliphate's spread across North Africa and the Sahara. The name spread to the Iberian peninsula (I.e. Spain, Portugal) & Corsica when these regions were conquered by the Almoravids and later by the Almohades who were Moroccan peoples consisting of many ethnicities including Berbers, Arabs, Tuaregs, Fulas and black West Africans!

The name became standard surname in Spanish at this time and remained so even after the Muslims were driven out 400years later by the reconquistas.

Around this time, Cristober Colombo discovered the New World which led to Spanish colonization of most of South America. The surname Bello went with them to these new countries and remains there till today.

The Fulas introduced the name to the many nationalities they encountered across West Africa including the Wollof, Dagomba, Hausa, Nupe, Yoruba, Edo, Igalla etc.

The name has even sipped into modern Western Arabic and it exists scarcely in places far east as Sudan and Egypt!

So yes Bello, as a name, has primarily been spread across the world by the influence of Spanish and Islam.

And it is indeed a beautiful and historically rich name borne by many diverse peoples across diverse countries all over the world.

Cc: @Ogbonti

I believe I have explained why Ramon Bello played alongside Gabby Batistuta for Argentina in 1994.

nnokwa042:
baba is arabic word or u want to tell me that afonja took islam to arab people?so akeem muyideen tawakalitu muinotu is afonja names abi ?i know the meaning of bukola what is meaning of tawakalitu

Flashh:
Ask Bello. Don't disturb me.

nnokwa042:
mr man fulani people dont ve original name they answer anything like LGA name if u go to north u will see fulani names like alhaji tofa of tofa town alhaji bauchi of bauchi town,

GetMeRight:

There are arabic names and there are Yoruba names just like there are Christian or English names.
I'm asking you to tell me the Yoruba word for "father" since you are so sure that "baba" was a borrowed Arabic word by afonja.
In your local language, you have a word for father. Are you telling me that yoruba didn't have a word for father other than the one you termed arabic? And again, "baba" is not an Arabic word for father.

Mbediogu:


You nailed it 100percent. Thanks.

RedboneSmith:


Nice write-up. The Berber/Arab colonisation of Spain is true enough. It is also true some influence from the colonisation is still visible in Spain, Portugal and Sicily.

However the connection you made between Fulani Ballo/Bello and Spanish Bello is fictitious. They are two very different names that accidentally sound alike.

Fulani Ballo/Bello = Helper/assistant.

Spanish Bello = Handsome

It is similar to Lola which is both a Yoruba and a Spanish name with different meanings in the two languages.

wunmi590:
The name originated from the yorubas in the olden days,

It was actually coined out from an incidence that happened between a wife and a husband,

During argument between the husband and the wife, the following argument ensue.

The husband gave the wife a bam to the wife to help use to rub the body, but fortunately, it fell down from the husband, so the wife was telling the husband to pick it up,

But the husband disagreed and told the wife to bend down and use it.

Which means "Béré kó ló" in Yoruba (bend down and use it)

So from there they coined out "Bello from it




























Believe that write up at your own peril

I almost did
Idiot

kjhova:


I appreciate your comment, man. As a follow up, I want to convince you that my postulation isn't fictitious in any way and is supported by fair amount f research. You know that etymology is always contested anyway and there is always multiple opinions.

There is no evidence yet of Bello being used as name in the Iberian peninsula, Italy or the Latin world until the Muslim era. Words like Bellus, Guapos, Decorus, Bello, Belli, Bella etc were used to describe beauty and handsome but were not ascribed as individual or family names.

Bello, as a name, was introduced by the Muslims to Iberia and from there it spread round the western world. The Fulas spread the same name across West Africa and the Sahara.

chloride6:


Like I said you all need your heads reexamined.

Your argument is as stupid as saying Lara as in Lara George is the same as Lara Oshiomole.

Some other guys have brought forward a more suitable explanation saying it's has Fulani roots.

RedboneSmith:


I am sure Usman Dan Fodio did not speak Latin in the 19th century, yet his son was called Muhammadu Bello. Let's agree that the Latin Bello and the Fulani Bello are different words that by coincidence happen to look similar.

murmee:
You are very wrong. According to a teacher from Ilorin, the original name is Billau. During the colonial time in Nigeria, the White people could not pronounce Billau very well and were saying Beelo instead. That was how the name Bello evolved and was accepted by the people.

RussianICBM:


You are wrong.

The Bello/Bella used in romance languages (French, Spanish,Italian, Portuguese etc) come from the latin word for Beautiful and has no connecion to fulani or any other African ethnic group.

Besides the pronunciation is different from the Nigerian one which is spelt Bello but sounds like "Baylo'
The European one sounds 'Bello'

nnokwa042:
igbo word for father is nnam so check around the world what baba means, remember alubosa is borrowed word from arabic

blarkraimez:

Fulani roots....and have you seen any fulani that w as able to tell you the meaning? Either islamically or as their indigenous name?

Demmzy15:
Some say it's Spanish

GetMeRight:

That means Yoruba didn't have word for "father" until Islam was brought to Nigeria. I wonder how Yorubas were referring to their fathers before that. Lol at someone's persistent wrong argument.

kjhova:


Dear OP,

It is heart breaking that 5 pages into this simple question, no one is close to the answer enough due to the acute knowledge of history among Nigerians

The name/surname/root name Bello is common in Spain, Portugal, Nigeria and many parts of South America (due to Spanish colonization) & West Africa (due to Muslim influence).

Let me connect the dots for you.

Bello (and its other variants; Barro, Ballo etc) were common Tuareg/Berber names in the 10th century even as these tribes were converted to Islam during the 1st Caliphate's spread across North Africa and the Sahara. The name spread to the Iberian peninsula (I.e. Spain, Portugal) & Corsica when these regions were conquered by the Almoravids and later by the Almohades who were Moroccan peoples consisting of many ethnicities including Berbers, Arabs, Tuaregs, Fulas and black West Africans!

The name became standard surname in Spanish at this time and remained so even after the Muslims were driven out 400years later by the reconquistas.

Around this time, Cristober Colombo discovered the New World which led to Spanish colonization of most of South America. The surname Bello went with them to these new countries and remains there till today.

The Fulas introduced the name to the many nationalities they encountered across West Africa including the Wollof, Dagomba, Hausa, Nupe, Yoruba, Edo, Igalla etc.

The name has even sipped into modern Western Arabic and it exists scarcely in places far east as Sudan and Egypt!

So yes Bello, as a name, has primarily been spread across the world by the influence of Spanish and Islam.

And it is indeed a beautiful and historically rich name borne by many diverse peoples across diverse countries all over the world.

Cc: @Ogbonti

I believe I have explained why Ramon Bello played alongside Gabby Batistuta for Argentina in 1994.