Efewestern:
ephoto - picture
Edeki - Market day
Emuejor - For meant for the gods
Orkrekre - Short person (I don't know o, but I find this name funny)
Emu - Food
Buluku - Skirt (the type our granny wears) (I still remember one girl bearing this name in my primary school, Good old days)

make I pause here.

onuwaje might add more weird names to the list.

Itsekiri funny names

Ogun-eran that's my family nickname it means 20 meat
Kosini (council)
Adan (bat)
Ipi (masquerade)
Areyenka (u nr fit trek d world)
Ashorkpinmi (talk talk tire me)
Eyeoyibo (Oyibo life)
Udayibo (sword or Oyibo sword)
Ojobon (market day)

Ukubeyinje (death dn spoil arrangements lol)
Edemadiden (yellow man)
Omadudu /Okorodudu(black child)
Ometie (small pickin)
Meatseaghanrun ( i nr do anybody anything) lol

Mabiaku (nor die with suffer)

RedboneSmith:
Another strange name I have encountered in Oshimili (Delta State) is Njokanma -Evil is Better. I am also hoping this one too has a deeper meaning that eludes me.

One of my seniors in DELSU back then answers this name. It was a rare Igbo name so I asked him one day and he told me the meaning. The irony is that he is a Jehovah's Witness member.

I wonder why parents give children names like this.

onuwaje:


Ogun-eran that's my family nickname it means 20 meat
Kosini (council)
Adan (bat)
Ipi (masquerade)
Areyenka (u nr fit trek d world)
Ashorkpinmi (talk talk tire me)
Eyeoyibo (Oyibo life)
Udayibo (sword or Oyibo sword)
Ojobon (market day)

Ukubeyinje (death dn spoil arrangements lol)

So na from Areyenka dem get the slang say "world small, world small but you nor fit trek am"!

I like the last one. It is epic!

Names dey this world sha.

RedboneSmith:
Tabansi is an Igbo name that literarily means Keep Eating Sh!t. But maybe it has a deeper meaning that isn't apparent to me.

It's more like "keep eating the sacrifices" "Nsi" here means, Sacrifice and not 'Nsi' (Shit) where the stress is much on the consonant, 's'.

Efewestern and Fratermathy
Urhobo people tend to bear very funny names whether the name is in English or Urhobo.
I've heard names like, 'America', 'Manager', etc
Very hilarious.

Also, some old Igbo female names in my region can be funny.

Like "Uzoaru", (the road to Aro)... ARO was revered as the spiritual capital of some Igbos.
Some tend to encourage gold digging.. the women takes pride in their future husband's wealth. May be thats why their men are forced to hustle.

Names like, "Oriaku(Diya/jiya)" (One who consumes her husband's wealth)
"Oyidiya" (One who resembles/matches/looks like her husband" or some modify it to "Oyiri"

"Ugbalu" or "Ogbenyealu" depending on the dialect (one who can't be married to the poor).

fratermathy:


So na from Areyenka dem get the slang day "world small, world small but you nor fit trek am"!

I like the last one. It is epic!

Names dey this world sha.

Lol if i reach villa i go ask my uncles

fratermathy:


I think it is Urhobo but he didn't spell it well.

yes I guess so, the name looks strange, couldn't even translate it to urhobo.

were that HungerBAD take see that name come from.. lol

onuwaje:


Ogun-eran that's my family nickname it means 20 meat
Kosini (council)
Adan (bat)
Ipi (masquerade)
Areyenka (u nr fit trek d world)
Ashorkpinmi (talk talk tire me)
Eyeoyibo (Oyibo life)
Udayibo (sword or Oyibo sword)
Ojobon (market day)

Ukubeyinje (death dn spoil arrangements lol)

lol Ogun-Eran, maybe your father love eating 20 pieces of meat every time .

Eke40seven:

It's more like "keep eating the sacrifices" "Nsi" here means, Sacrifice and not 'Nsi' (Shit) where the stress is much on the consonant, 's'.

Efewestern and Fratermathy
Urhobo people tend to bear very funny names whether the name is in English or Urhobo.
I've heard names like, 'America', 'Manager', etc
Very hilarious.

urhobo are naturally funny, mere looking at any typical urhobo man you will start laughing.

some even bear photo, Olokpa - police

if I start to list urhobo name you go laugh tire.

Efewestern:


yes I guess so, the name looks strange, couldn't even translate it to urhobo.

were that HungerBAD take see that name come from.. lol



lol Ogun-Eran, maybe your father love eating 20 pieces of meat every time .

That name pass 100 yrs o


D man called Onuwaje was a hunter. Dem say na only him be d man for Itsekiri wen enter bush kill 20 different bush meat come out dat same day.

So na dere d name take come

Efewestern:


urhobo are naturally funny, mere looking at any typical urhobo man you will start laughing.

some even bear photo, Olokpa - police

if I start to list urhobo name you go laugh tire.

True that! I used to think those comedians were being comical with their narrations but in truth, their narrations just explains a normal day in the life of an average Urhobo person. I saw it first hand. Funny lots.

Eke40seven:

Efewestern and Fratermathy
Urhobo people tend to bear very funny names whether the name is in English or Urhobo.
I've heard names like, 'America', 'Manager', etc
Very hilarious.

If we are talking about the worst type of English names, turn your eyes towards Ijaw. Ijaw people dey answer anything, I swear. Urhobo funny English name dey learn for Ijaw one.

You see Ijaws answering names like Pepper, Pepple, Goldwater, Heneiken, Wine, etc. These are not even their native names yet o!

Urhobos by far dwarf the Ijaws in funny native names though.



There is also one funny Igbo name I came across one time but I don't know if I remember it correctly:

Azubuike (back is front?). Am I right?

onuwaje:

That name pass 100 yrs o


D man called Onuwaje was a hunter. Dem say na only him be d man for Itsekiri wen enter bush kill 20 different bush meat come out dat same day.

So na dere d name take come

There is one singer called Waje. I don't know if you know her. Is she Itsekiri too?

onuwaje:

That name pass 100 yrs o


D man called Onuwaje was a hunter. Dem say na only him be d man for Itsekiri wen enter bush kill 20 different bush meat come out dat same day.

So na dere d name take come

Lol, so your grand grand pelle na hunter, To be hunter those days na big name o.

fratermathy:


If we are talking about the worst type of English names, turn your eyes towards Ijaw. Ijaw people dey answer anything, I swear. Urhobo funny English name dey learn for Ijaw one.

You see Ijaws answering names like Pepper, Pepple, Goldwater, Heneiken, Wine, etc. These are not even their native names yet o!

Urhobos by far dwarf the Ijaws in funny native names though.



There is also one funny Igbo name I came across one time but I don't know if I remember it correctly:

Azubuike (back is front?). Am I right?

Lol..

Azubuike means, "Strength lies in the back" more like an anatomical explaination. I don't know if there is a deeper meaning to it though.

fratermathy:


There is one singer called Waje. I don't know if you know her. Is she Itsekiri too?

Edo.

I read on this forum were one ilaje guy said they bear onuwaje too, so names like this are answered in ondo/Some yoruboid part of Edo/ Itsekiri

jolomi is another name answered by Ilaje, don't know if core yoruba bear waje /jolomi etc

Efewestern:


Lol, so your grand grand pelle na hunter, To be hunter those days na big name o.

U knw d story na

fratermathy:


There is one singer called Waje. I don't know if you know her. Is she Itsekiri too?

Waje (an acronym for "Words aren’t just enough", is a Nigerian singer

Efewestern:


urhobo are naturally funny, mere looking at any typical urhobo man you will start laughing.

some even bear photo, Olokpa - police

if I start to list urhobo name you go laugh tire.

Okuovoriot (one man riot)
Olenovo (one yam)



Two names in my area

Ijaw funny names i knw
1. Big tom
2. Pepple
3. Jackreece
4. Government
5. Bullet
6. Enakpurukeme
7. Funkekeme

onuwaje:

Okuovoriot (one man riot) Olenovo (one yam)


Two names in my area

lol, ijaw na baba for names o.

cc:
seun lalasticlala

fratermathy:


If we are talking about the worst type of English names, turn your eyes towards Ijaw. Ijaw people dey answer anything, I swear. Urhobo funny English name dey learn for Ijaw one.

You see Ijaws answering names like Pepper, Pepple, Goldwater, Heneiken, Wine, etc. These are not even their native names yet o!

Urhobos by far dwarf the Ijaws in funny native names though.



There is also one funny Igbo name I came across one time but I don't know if I remember it correctly:

Azubuike (back is front?). Am I right?

Most of the names are as a result of contact with the British, they Anglicized most of our names to what they are.

lwkmd... urhobo names na war o... urhobo wadoooo!

fratermathy:


We go beg una o. Chai! Seun and Lalasticlala, is that how you guys used to do?

Where Myndd44 and Fynestboi sef?

Onuwaje: what is the meaning of Fregene in Itsekiri?

fratermathy:
Onuwaje: what is the meaning of Fregene in Itsekiri?

fregene is a popular name, urhobo still bear fregene (Okpe to be precise)

fratermathy:
Onuwaje: what is the meaning of Fregene in Itsekiri?

Pure
Undiluted
Free

I'm already having headache

Funny Igbo names.

Amuobi-dick wey dey for chest.

Ozoemena- Another one should not do me.

alugbuoerie-after fighting, you eat.

Onwubiko-death please.

Onwuegbulem-death should not kill me.

Then finally

Oshionya-someone that set traps.(hahahahha, my secondary school classmate's surname)

onuwaje:
Ijaw funny names i knw
1. Big tom
2. Pepple
3. Jackreece
4. Government
5. Bullet
6. Enakpurukeme
7. Funkekeme

Boniface
Akpobolokeme
Tuologbo

My friend will kill me for mentioning his name... Otoikhine, which means ground no dey run

our own is lalasticlalala


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