ChinenyeN:

Are you talking about the 'Ocole' names up there? Ocole [Okolie] (as in Okorie)? Is that what you mean?

I think it might be Okoli instead.

ChinenyeN:

There's actually a village or people by that answer 'Nike Onicha' (said to actually be 'Nike Enu Onicha') though.

Where is it?

I think it might actually be 'Okole', though.

Nike Enu Onicha are in Igbo-Etiti, from what I read. http://igboetiti..com/2010/10/history-and-tradition-of-people-of-igbo.html

So they are Nike people not Onicha? Okay.

Ogbonne
Ekeoma
Nwanneka
Odogwu
Ariringuzo
Igboecheonwu
Nwaezeka
Nwoke
Nwadi
Adaku
Obumneme
Agwunobi
Ebirim
Njoku
Anosike
Nnadi
Dumkwu
Oledibe
Olebara
Ezeji
Ihuaku
Nnedinma
Anyiam
Osuoha
Osuigwe
Nwaosu

RedCapChief:


Please I'd be grateful if you could share the meaning of these names.




@ezeagu, I was reading a paper online and I came across another meaning of the name "Onuora". It meant someone who overcame a multitude i.e Onuo ora.
I thought it meant 'Mouth of the people.'

What do you think?

In general people go with 'leader or representative', and if someone were using the other meaning the pronunciation at least would be very different I think, plus in dialects that use lu instead of nu, Onuora is Onuoha, so.

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