Many of you got it wrong. Igbo as a prefix or suffix in names did not just become common after the war.
A person born after the war would be 41 years old this year and could probably have kids that are very young, at most 18 years old; but the people bearing those names (mostly as surnames) ranges from very old to very young, so how do you explain that?

Traditionally, Igbos bear their (great) grand fathers names (as surnames) but could be many generations back.

I grew up with one Igboanugo family and neither their grandfather nor their father was named Igboanugo. The name was a very old name.

@OP, the reason Igbos bear names with Igbo in it is the same reason they bear names with "Onwu" (death) in it or "Chi" in it.  Most Igbos name their kids with names describing the circumstance of their birth, their family, or their family wishes, regrets, etc. In the case of Igbo affix, the circumstance extends to the race or people. Every Igbo name has a meaning.

Igbo is a mysterious word no one really has explained well. I think it was present in all corners of Igbo land. Igbo is also much older than the word Yoruba, and possibly other names like Hausa and Fulani (Arabic?), and a lot of these names have no meaning in their languages. Igbo, however, seems to have come from the Igbo.

Na 'em sabi jor!

@op some of those names are not popular in my town but i know what they mean

igbokibe= igbo is greater than others.

igbozurukeme= igbo is complete/has everything in abundances.

igbojiuba= igbo has wealth.

igbojekwe=igbo will agree.etc

Hmnnn before i make my contrisuggestion i would like to brake Kolanut for the elders of our land, hmn may they accept also this drink."nnnwashing of mouth, spit to the ground". Nsee.

henhen what is the topic again?

brainpulse:

Hmnnn before i make my contrisuggestion i would like to brake Kolanut for the elders of our land, hmn may they accept also this drink."nnnwashing of mouth, spit to the ground". Nsee.

henhen what is the topic again?

You are a true son of the soil , eh, Ndia choro ka ha mara ihe mere na igbo na dina aha anyi mana obodo anyi biko kowara ha.

Igbo-ese (Bushes in the igbo people yam legs)

There is need to have culture and values

What's all these bullcrap about "SOUTHERN, NORTHERN, WESTERN, EASTERN" Igbos? There is nothing like that!! only some stupid people here on Nairaland trying so hard to divide igboland. Funny how little kids of yesterday are claiming experts on Igbo issues, when it's very clear they do not know even their own backyard culture.

Igbobuigbo

Me too,having followed most of his comments in some of threads i wonder if he is on a depression tablet?Anyway this is what the poster who claimed to be a historian was hoping to achieve by this post,FAKE HISTORIANS.

Kc3000:

Chinenye, as a fellow proud Ngwa man, I would advice that you deviate from this your imagined Southern vs Northern Igbo dichotomy that you are constantly peddling. There's a north, south, east and west in everything, even in Ngwaland there's a northern(Isialangwa) and a southern(Obiomangwa) axis. I simply don't understand why you are so keen to establish this division in every Igbo thread. Ndi-Ngwa fiercly protect our identity, but we are genuinly as Igbo as it gets, and we are not a group that somehow fell under Igbo influence. We are not some people with identity crisis, so please lets act like it. Thank you.

@Sadiq88.Why dont you live the igbo alone YES live us alone FAKE HISTORIAN.

@sadiq88 or whoever you say you are pls leave igbo alone BOGUS HISTORIAN.

Some one is deleting my posts, why?

noiseless:

@Sadiq88.Why dont you live the igbo alone YES live us alone FAKE HISTORIAN.

I dont think he's a badd dude.

What does this Southern vs. Northern Igbo talk mean? Umuahia people bear IGBOKWE a lot, are they part of your northern axis?

Don't play the fool.

pls, nobody should misunderstand me. i have no ulterior motive, i opened this thread to learn

thanks for your contributions,

are/were people known with these names ( not surname) or is just used as family name?

sadiq88:

are/were people known with these names ( not surname) or is just used as family name?

Both as proper names and surnames.

all this una divide and conquer i tire 4 una

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ChinenyeN:

Both as proper names and surnames.

In the past they used to be first names, but they are mostly surnames now.

mbatuku2:

In the past they used to be first names, but they are mostly surnames now.

That's one thing I don't like. All of these ancient and solid, proper names being relegated to surnames and replaced by all of these other 'convenience' names. Anyway, you're very correct. They're mostly surnames now.

if anyone is referring to the list of names earlier in the thread, i doubt they werent also relatively recent introductions, going by the structure.

tpia@:

if anyone is referring to the list of names earlier in the thread, i doubt they werent also relatively recent introductions, going by the structure.

What structure are you talking of?

^^prefixes and suffixes.

you can check obiagu's first post on this page.

he has a general idea.

Obiagu's post is about Igbo not being recent in names.

^^maybe i read his post wrong.

will check it again.

i grew up with one Igboanugo family and neither their grandfather nor their father was named Igboanugo. The name was a very old name

if he means the great grandfather was the one named igboanugo, then igbo might have been getting popular as a prefix/suffix around those times.

Tpia, the names aren't recent. Some constructions maybe, but the thought of people bearing "igbo" in their name isn't. Maybe the use of "prefixes" and "suffixes" is causing a misunderstanding. The names technically are not prefixed or suffixed. They are sentence-derived; sentences where the word "igbo" for whatever reason was used by people in the past and had a specific meaning and understanding. Whatever that meaning was, it seems largely unclear now, since many people nowadays think of the name as directly inferring to "Igbo people".

^^i'm yet to come across people with igbo in their names in ancient times.

of course i could be wrong, but folks from back then generally had names in which each constituent part, had a meaning.


assuming igbo was a name form in the olden days, then it should have a specific meaning which is decipherable as well.

figuratively speaking.

and ancient times here would imply before a great grandfather's time.

let's assume for most people, their great grandfather's time would be around the early part of the 20th century, or at a stretch, the later part of the 19th century.

here's an igbo [ibo] name from two or three centuries ago:

Shadraoh[b] ldasibiokoromabaofore [/b]

can anyone translate this?

not sure if the spelling is right.

other names include odiri [meaning king's son]- probably odili today.

kamalu, long form of kalu.

enugu used to be known as elugu, showing some consonants have been changed.

if there's an actual town called elugu today, in the southeast, then i stand corrected.

elu ugwu [elugu] means hill top.