My phone scares me awake in the middle of the night and here am I wondering 'WhoTF is this at this time of night now?', I pick up the receiver and drowsily bellow a 'hello', the voice on the other end is unmistakeable 'Sis, na me, ' It's my little sister.

You see, that girl can't brush her teeth without a manual so she calls on me at any/every/worst times of the day/night/year, even when I amwith you-know-who, doing some good ol' you-know-what. But anyway heck! I can't put the phone down on little sis , so I ask what the problem is this time. She proudly announces that she finally met Mr. X, he's cute, fine, great, blah, downtoearth, educated, responsible and more blah, 'Cut the crap, ' I say, 'and what did you tell him?, ' she uhhmms, ahhhs, eermmms and finally in a surprised/shocked quirky voice she goes,  'I couldnt say yes, NEVER! God forbid!, '. OK. Here am I, 'But,but but, but, you just praised him, sang his glories, na wetin be the issue this time now?'. I couldnt fathom what it could be. (Well certainly not at that time of the night) so I asked her to indulge me.

After a lot of 'what is it, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT NOW?', she finally gives in and silently affirms 'I no fit date some guy wey yi name na ELIJAH now, which kine name bi that sis!'

I mean - give me a break! - I yelled down the phone - you can sweeten it now if you don't want to call him that whilst you're alone blah blah, but no, hell will freeze before my little sister will listen to me. So your guess is as good as mine, a GREAT guy got dumped, all because of a name.

LADIES - what's in a name? I mean Polycarp, Nicodemus, Elijah, Praxedis, Friday, are not that bad now? Infact me thinks they sound kind of sweet!
GUYS - Dont mind ladies, they also have weird names, Benedicta, Maria, Something something Generosity, you know the lot.

Know of any weird weird names of partners your wont be using in public

THEN SPILL!

I certainly will not dump you for your name - but I don't trust my sister jare!

Phew!

What a relief! I was getting apprehensive!

Hehehehehe

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@mizkay na wa 4 ur sis ooo wetin do name? y ur sis. no dey there went him parent dey name am ELIJAH. well like i use to say 'Notin is bad it mite av been worse'
what if his name is kabiru!
*Some gals will grab 'ELI' wen all d qualities ur sis mentiond is present!
Anyhow, everyhow, somehow na life!

@hayprof, tell my sister o before she looses love of her life! make una help me tell am!

chai, wat a name, i dont thnk i can date aperson like that, i just dont like nigerians who bear english names, dig?, straight u yoruba, i kinda like muslim names, ibrahim, musa, habeeb, abidin, buta all those english or names from the bible, william, solomon, yukkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

@aloib - join my sister's ranks. just dont miss THE guy by deciding to MISS the name!

What of Rocco, Cocco, Fifi Trixabelle, Bluebell Madonna, Speck Wildhorse, scout, puma, jermajesty, phinnaeus and kal-el?
Would you refuse to date them on the basis of their names? They are children of celebrities mind you!

http://davidylan..com/2006/06/plenty-nonsense-whats-in-name.html#comments

na wah ohhh, people have excueses for eveything, when u metinoned tha names, I could not wait to laugh when I saw POLYCAP cuz datz ma uncle's name, lol, just curious, how is your lil. sis?

if he was dumped for his name that means i have no chance

whats in a name?
people change them anyway.
Ladies shld look out for qualities in there man and not name.

@mizkay, Ur sister is being childish and i guess her main concern is ''what will my friends say''?

what happens to Calistus- cali, Zebrudayah- Zeby, Bonicafe- Boni, Polynus or Polycap-Poly
Just shorten the name and enjoy.

We shld be proud of our guys no matter what.

I dont See what love has got to do with name thank heavens my boyfriend's name isnt bad

I haven't met any guys with really ridiculous names but everytime I meet someone with a slightly ridiculous name, I love-vendor his name. How bad could it be? Just call him by initials or make it something cool.

Besides guys are not their names

Try God's own, GodsWill, Manpower, Godsblessing, Immaculate, Immaculata, Philomena, these are even kool. the chinese and indians at ma workplace got some pretty funny names, Imagine u callin someone and can't help but laugh as u call the name. Like Ping Ping, Chu Fu, viral, tura (not the soap oh), Al Bino, frisbee, fabrice, Assyrian and we have like 4 diff jack there - jack fen, jack zhou, jack li, etc

Some people believe that when you change your name, your personality changes with it.

Little wonder why names like Ignatius, Romanus, Sylvanus, Agatha, Elizabeth, Maria, Victoria, Angelina, Benedette, Agnes, Margaret, Thaddeus, Livinus, etc etc are getting extinct, if not already extinct.

@ALL you guys are all right. but like I said - tell that to my lil sis. Hotstepper she's 24 o! so she's not that young. Personally I really dont go for names - I go for people!

i gotta think,i'll be back

hurry jare,, we need thoughts!

mizkay:

hurry jare,, we need thoughts!

hehehehe,u gotta wait

i dont see nothing worng wit da name,

name is name jare,

u not dey see some people dey call thiresef Dogs,dogg,cats

dogs? cats? abi na animal kingdom now?

mizkay:

dogs? cats? abi na animal kingdom now?

LOL LOL,maybe?

@mizkay our darling sister is 24? and we are here arguing? hell no am out, i'm back
*let her wait till she's 40, ! abi

hayprof:

@mizkay our darling sister is 24? and we are here arguing? hell no am out, i'm back
*let her wait till she's 40, ! abi

Dont worry about her - she's till finding her sweetnamed men jare!

Personally i'am so jelly for a boy named , , he's a HUNK. i never knew anyone could have a problem with that name. Mikzay bring your sis here  let me give her some smacking. She has not heard names yet, its Elijah. Make God no allow u meet Thankgod, bornaventure, alfonzors, bonnyface and the likes then.

well well well

HAHAHAHAH! This thread is funny sha,
Name's like Godspower crack me up big time.
I remember years ago when I was in 9ja,
one of our neighbor's name was Godspower.
So everytime we'll always hear

"AHHH! MAMA GODSPOWER I DON COME O!"

Ma bro and I will look at eachother "CHEI! Godspower walahi?!"
Anytime we remember we still laugh over it.

Godspower, Godwin, Progress, Success, Goodday, NO THANKS!!