Igbos And Foreign Names.

You don't have an Igbo name?. . .Ever Igbo person I know has an Igbo name so I don't know where you get this extinction talk from.

The other factor is the church which mostly require the kids to bear biblical names at baptism. So instead of the kids answering their native names, they answer their baptismal names. You get names like Pius, Charles, Timothy, Benedict. . .

I do not see the disappearance you speak of, maybe you need to associate with more Igbos or something because 99% of Igbos I know have Igbo names as first or middle names. Some answer their native names at home and the baptismal names outside.

it is not only in Igboname, infact, Ibos keep their names than others. Alot of Yorubas in ma school. change their name or Englisalize it, lol, I do not have an english name,  Ma 1st and middle names are igbo. 2ndly, the names u mentioned that are common in igboland, it is da same in other tribs as well and I hardly hear these names now sefffffffffffff

in my family we all have igbo names and igbo names are so lovely. my sisters is akuabata, go figure what it means. in nollywood they always use igbo names, maybe we ought to start a thread that asks why they do that

which nollywood are you talking about?

is it the one with genevieve nnaji, desmond elliot, jim iyke, rita dominic and co that use igbo names?

@ the poster,Igbo names are not extinct at all.
people how can you use nollywood to prove anything?
Tom Cruise,Anna Nicole,Tina Turner,whoopi and a host of others had other names before Hollywood.

those soares, da silva and alberto people are brazillian returnee slaves

them rivers/bayelsa people are another issue all together

4play nwa mama is the full name abi? 

infact even a yoruba boy like myself get igbo name, ogechi  so who is claiming igbo names are extinct?

Neither have i.In my family,none of my siblings have a non-Igbo name,so I don't get the point.

@debosky
"4 Play" is an original Igbo name from way back. 8)You probably know Igwe 3 Play One of Nnewi-I am the son

What about "Col David Mark"-Middle Better.I remember a footballer then from Northern Nigeria-William Van Aisony  



 

I fit call am Quintiple Play

People no believe say 4 Play na my real name.That's the name on my birth cert

As you don spend more time for NL,i wonder whether it is is because your surname is De Balls-from which Debosky is derived

My name is very good for the porn industry where I work

Who go employ De Balls?

thats Mr De Big Ballz to you ok? 

don't tell me you haven't seen my flicks - Ballz Gone Wild Pt 1,2 and 3?? they are my best sellers 

this is interesting but i guess it is a misconception that igbos don't have native first names but maybe that's rightfully so.  
All the igbos i know do have native names but majority of the them use english names to be called by.
I'm defintely not sure of the yorubas you know but all the yorubas i know (and that's a lot b/c I am one) have native names.  A very small few do go the igbo route and use english names to be called by.  The others use their native names but it just sounds english by the way people pronounce it and maybe we are guilty of throwing our hands up and allowing people to mispronounce our names.  hehe

funny, i was just watching a nollywood movie yesterday (When Love Dies) and two of the actors had both first and last english names: Ramsey Nouah and and some other dude with a name more oyibo than Ramsey's.  I asked my mom what was up with that and she said that they were very most likely from Ogun State.  Ogun state is where many of the slaves that were taken to the West and given English names were brought to when some slaves were taken back to Africa.  (of course i still wonder why you would continue to give yourself an english first name knowing that information but whatever).

LOL
chichi that is now chychy

It's one thing to do it while in another country
I just think it's sad that these script writers can't have Nollywood hold on to their culture.
Why try so hard to be like Hollywood, do you hardly see anyone in Bollywood movies with English names?

Isn't that the typical naija mentality that everything American is better.
I will not change my name for anyone.
They can butcher my last name all they want, if they can pronounce those szc polish last names,they can also pronounce
Okonkwo Nwaezigbo of Isiekenamanasa

the same could be said of black american actresses, 925  . I mean even in Nollywood, you see all these fair actresses and they can't act AT ALL. Just there as "eye candy". Lilian Bach is an example, lol her name is also a good example of the thread at hand.

and you are right about the color descrimination but I still respect their movie industry for at least keeping true to their names and language.

all the black skin color thing just makes me sick.
So those of us dark girls should disappear?

In Igboland there are men specifically out to marry light skinned wives in this day and age.
ninetofive,the indian discrimination is almost like racism,it is terrible.
light skinned girls  in India will not even marry dark skinned men unless they were some rich professionals,that's pathetic.