11 December 2009

What’s in a name?

As would be expected, names here are different than ones you might find in the United States.  I’ve compiled a short sampling of some more common and unique names of my students bellow. 

  • Philbert
  • Wilbard
  • Baraka
  • Godlove
  • Mary
  • Restituta
  • Amani
  • Goodluck
  • Norberth
  • Heavenlight
  • John
  • Novatus
  • Chrispin
  • Lukresia
  • Frida
  • Innocent
  • Peter
  • Khalid
  • Urbani
  • Emmanuel
  • Happy
  • Boniphace
  • Benedict

Though at first, some of the names like Innocent and Goodluck may seem strange to an English-speaker, consider some the fact that many American names have meanings in other languages.  For example, my own name means ‘times’ in Swahili.

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