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Given names of Nigerian origin (2 C, 42 P) H. Hausa names (2 C, 13 P) I. Igbo names (3 C, 54 P) S. Surnames of Nigerian origin (210 P) Y. Yoruba names (1 C, 76 P)
This category is for masculine given names from Nigeria (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). Pages in category "Nigerian masculine given names" The following 91 pages are in this category, out of 91 total.
Efik names are names borne by the Efik people of Southern Nigeria and Western Cameroon. The naming system of the Efik is unique and differs from contemporary African names in several ways. The word for name in Efik is Enyiñ and the act of assigning a name to a child is Usio enyiñ. [1]
The most popular given names vary nationally, regionally, and culturally.Lists of widely used given names can consist of those most often bestowed upon infants born within the last year, thus reflecting the current naming trends, or else be composed of the personal names occurring most often within the total population.
South African given names (3 C, 28 P) T. Tunisian given names (1 C) Y. Yoruba given names (1 C, 234 P) Pages in category "African given names"
Nigerian masculine given names (91 P) Pages in category "Given names of Nigerian origin" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total.
Fẹ́mi audio ⓘ is a common Nigerian given unisex name of Yoruba origin which means "love me". [1] [2] Femi is most commonly a diminutive form of "Olufemi" (or Olúfẹ́mi) which means The Lord loves me,("Olú" means Lord, Leader, or the "Prominent one," in the Yoruba language).
Unlike the Western binary construct of male/men and female/women, such distinctions did not exist in Yorùbá societies. [7] Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, in "The Invention of Women: Making African Sense of Western Gender Discourse," [8] delves into pre-colonial Yorùbá practices and explores the erasure's modern implications.