Onomastics Why We Do This. WHAT IS A NAME? George Redmonds defines names as “…special words that we use to identify a person, an animal, a place, or a thing, and they all have a meaning. In many cases that meaning will lie concealed in the name’s history;
Igbo names MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE OF OFOR IN IGBO NAMES There is an Igbo saying re-echoed in a song by a popular Igbo highlife group: “Onye ukwu siri na ya ji Ọfọ, onye nta siri na ya ji Ọfọ. Mana Ọfọ maara onye ji ya”, meaning, “Both the high and the low claim to