Many women who are expecting children spend countless hours on the internet sourcing for names that they, according to their judgement, deem suited for their babies.
While searching for names, women look at the meaning. According to them, their children will live up to the meaning of their names when they grow up.
Other parents go ahead to determine whether the names seem fashionable enough according to the current trends or era.
That is why at this day and age, some names such as Abednego seem very rare as they are termed as old school.
Others choose to name their children after famous people, a case and point being a couple in Uganda who named their child Vladimir Putin. The said child hit the headlines, BBC to be particular, as he was among the top performing students in the national exams to mark the end of primary school.
In Kenya, one of the tribes is known to pick their children’s names as per recent events i.e. President Barack Obama’s recent visit to Kenya presented an opportunity for parents to choose his name for their children in addition to Air Force One, his official plane to name just but a few.
Funny baby names...
Some of the parents go to an extent of combining their names so as to have unique baby names. Others may choose to name their children after their favourite football teams.
This was brought to the limelight by a recent story that was highlighted by BBC where a man deceived his wife into naming their child Lanesra.
As per the story, she accepted to give their child the name because according to her, it was unique and romantic. However, it was only after two years that she came to discover that her husband had interchanged the name of his favourite team which is Arsenal to Lanesra.
On the other hand, if expectant Kenyan women were asked to name their children after their cravings, then let’s just say the world would never be the same again.
We would have babies with names such as Omena Ugali Sukuma, Soda Maembe and Chips Smokie.
Woe unto those children whose mothers might have had weird cravings for things such as munyu for their friends in future might have ended up laughing at them or bullying them.