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Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by iReport: 9:13pm On Mar 22, 2009
Is that your name? ho ho ho ho grin grin grin grin
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by Nobody: 9:13pm On Mar 22, 2009
Lord have mercy grin
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by CrazyMan(m): 9:17pm On Mar 22, 2009
davidylan:

Thanks crazykid, Nnenna is another one i really like. Chineke . . . i'm looking for an igbo chic to marry o.  cheesy
Yea you can marry one if you wish like; I think Igbo girls are really nice.   cheesy

davidylan:

But Nne means grandmother urgh!
No; Nne is mother not grandmother. This is how it is.

Nne is mother nna is father; so when you bring the two together, we have nnenna which means mother's father. And your mother's father is known as your grandfather.

It's just like Nnanna; Nna is father and nna is also father; so it mean's father's father (that's your grandfather)

Do you now get it?  smiley

davidylan:

Anymore cute igbo names pls?
I would post more I'm still trying to compile a few.

asha 80:


Munachi-Me and God

Imoni-

chimamanda-My God will not fail me

kosi-Short form of Kosisochukwu which means How one followed God

kemdilim-My own remains with me I might be wrong thoughAmeze-

ifesinachi-The thing is from God

ikomi-ASk Ikomi cheesy

Mobi-short form of Amaobi which means Obi's compound or Do you know my heart depending on pronouncation

Obasi-God

Rotanna-Can also be Lotanna ,Chetanna which means Remeber God

Rihanna- cheesy

Queenisha-Ask Osisi lipsrsealed
Great job Asha80  cheesy
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by CrazyMan(m): 9:19pm On Mar 22, 2009
ibkaye:

Lord have mercy grin
Amen cheesy
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by MrCrackles(m): 9:23pm On Mar 22, 2009
iReport:

Is that your name? ho ho ho ho grin grin grin grin

Dont be silly, you know my name! cheesy
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by iReport: 9:40pm On Mar 22, 2009
Dont be silly, you know my name!

Is that Hannibal Ofiafuluagu?
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by osisi2(f): 9:53pm On Mar 22, 2009
grafikdon:

For those looking for cute Igbo names, here ya go

Zikora (Unisex) - Show the People

Chika (Unisex but more common among the females)  - God is great/test

Ola (Female) - Precious, pretty stuff, Ornament (gold/bronze/diamond. . . )

Zinachidi (Unisex) - Show that God exists

Somadina (Male/Female) - I will not exist alone (More like "No man is an Island"wink

Akunna (Female)- Father's wealth

Chetanna(Female) - Remember the father (ie God)

Enuma (Female)- Haven knows

Obinna (Male) grin grin - Will of the father (or you can say Will of God) Same as Uchechi/Uchenna/Uchechukwu

Chioma (Female) - Good fortune/luck.

Chisom (Female) - God is with me



Now for the not so cute or plain 'weird 'Igbo names . . .

Ogbenyeanu (female) - Out of the reach of the poor man  shocked shocked shocked (This mus be Abia/Imo state name  grin *hides from ***osis people  lipsrsealed lipsrsealed)

Ekwutosi (female) (probably the ugliest Igbo name when pronounced) - Do not ridicule. . .

Mgbeke(female) - Born on Eke market day. Unfortunately some silly people changed it to Bush village woman grin grin grin

Uchichi/Ochichi (male) - Midnight/Darkness

Meremereninukwampetenazu
- Hypocrisy  grin grin












nice names up there.
what's with the sententence down below? shocked shocked shocked
other nice names

Yagazie (Yaggy), God's speed i.e may everything be good.

Zimife (Zim), Fill me with knowledge

Zimuzo (zim), Show me the way

Chikamso (Kamso) , I'm following the Lord

Nesochi  , Following God

Dubem, Lead me

Kanayo, let's keep asking God


@ grafikdon,that name Ekwytosi is terrible.
people called them everything but ekwutosi
ekwitos
ekwitox
ekwutos
then they shorten it to ekwyyyy
tufiakwa
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by osisi2(f): 9:54pm On Mar 22, 2009
Ofiafuluagu is a powerful name.
It means the forest that has seen a tiger
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by osisi2(f): 9:55pm On Mar 22, 2009
there's another name Otagburuagu meaning the one that has bitten a tiger to death
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by iReport: 9:59pm On Mar 22, 2009
nice names up there.
what's with the sententence down below?
other nice names

Yagazie (Yaggy), God's speed i.e may everything be good.

Zimife (Zim), Fill me with knowledge

Zimuzo (zim), Show me the way

Chikamso (Kamso) , I'm following the Lord

Nesochi , Following God

Dubem, Lead me

Kanayo, let's keep asking God

Can we call Zikora, ZIK for short?. Is it the same as azikiwe?

Translate:

Azuboike

Oderah

Tonto

Elochi/Elechi

Efosa
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by iReport: 10:00pm On Mar 22, 2009
there's another name Otagburuagu meaning the one that has bitten a tiger to death
Igbos are serious cannibals, lol. grin grin grin
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by Nobody: 10:01pm On Mar 22, 2009
Thought efosa was edo smiley
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by MrCrackles(m): 10:02pm On Mar 22, 2009
**osisi:

there's another name Otagburuagu meaning the one that has bitten a tiger to death

Oh dear!

Deadout
!!! grin grin cheesy
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by iReport: 10:04pm On Mar 22, 2009
Thought efosa was edo
For real?. I hear it in Nollywood a lot and thought it's igbo name.
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by osisi2(f): 10:07pm On Mar 22, 2009
iReport:

Can we call Zikora, ZIK for short?. Is it the same as azikiwe?

Translate:

Azuboike  it's Azubuike meaning the last is the greatest

Oderah    or Chiderah  meaning Once God's written it

Tonto  this is just a nick name,I hear her name is Tochukwu (Praise God)

Elochi/Elechi or Enechi in Anambra  meaning,looking unto God

Efosa  I think Efosa is a Bini name is it Esosa?


Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by osisi2(f): 10:10pm On Mar 22, 2009
MrCrackles:

Oh dear!

Deadout
!!! grin grin cheesy

Wait till you hear my last name lipsrsealed
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by MrCrackles(m): 10:10pm On Mar 22, 2009
**osisi:

Wait till you hear my last name lipsrsealed

Go on tell me! tongue cheesy
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by Nobody: 10:11pm On Mar 22, 2009
iReport:

For real?. I hear it in Nollywood a lot and thought it's igbo name.
Yeah, I think it's a bini name cheesy
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by osisi2(f): 10:15pm On Mar 22, 2009
MrCrackles:

Go on tell me! tongue cheesy

Igbogbahaka-Agbugbaeruleke grin
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by MrCrackles(m): 10:16pm On Mar 22, 2009
**osisi:

Igbogbahaka grin

shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked grin cheesy
Bloody hell!! cheesy
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by osisi2(f): 10:17pm On Mar 22, 2009
MrCrackles:

shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked grin cheesy
Bloody hell!! cheesy

that's just one half o
before the hyphen
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by iReport: 10:19pm On Mar 22, 2009
Wait till you  hear my last name
Is it Nnenna A**Eze.
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by osisi2(f): 10:21pm On Mar 22, 2009
iReport:

Is it Nnenna A**Eze.

sharap Olufunmilayo osuntokun
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by MrCrackles(m): 10:21pm On Mar 22, 2009
**osisi:

that's just one half o
before the hyphen

How do you pronounce that?

How do you complete forms for financial products etc?

Your colleagues at work and other service men/women will be terrified pronouncing that name
?! shocked grin
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by osisi2(f): 10:22pm On Mar 22, 2009
Mrs I will do
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by osisi2(f): 10:23pm On Mar 22, 2009
just kidding
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by asha80(m): 10:23pm On Mar 22, 2009
Igbogbahaka-Agbugbaeruleke


That is my dad's first name.
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by MrCrackles(m): 10:26pm On Mar 22, 2009
**osisi:

just kidding

Ahh, good! cheesy
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by iReport: 10:28pm On Mar 22, 2009
sharap Olufunmilayo osuntokun
I bet you are surprised how I knew your name and your face? grin grin
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by Ikomi(m): 10:33pm On Mar 22, 2009
iReport:

Is it Nnenna A**Eze.

I knew it. Nnenna heyyyyyyy eeeehhhhhhhh. So owu gi no na Nairaland na eme imkpotu? cheesy
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by MrCrackles(m): 10:38pm On Mar 22, 2009
Ok i just found about these, what do they mean?

OKPANKA! shocked

UWADIEGWU!
shocked shocked
Re: Showcasing Igbo culture by Nobody: 11:40pm On Mar 22, 2009
What does Adaora mean?

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