Wazua or Stockskenya?
Clearly a name matters big time going by the growing hullabaloo since baby Wazua was born. Her future looks so uncertain, mostly because of her name (see polls).
But does it matter what name you call your kid? Ponder these:

1)A guy called Dennis Mtokulipa approaches
you for a loan. His name ‘Mtokulipa’
suggests a defaulter. Would you lend him?
2)Would you employ a superbly qualified
accountant called Mukora or Mwizi as your
cashier?
3)Should a certain Joseph Taabu with his so
myriad difficulties in life, relationships,
health and at work link his misfortunes to
his name?
4)Picture this: your daughter brings home Mr.
Nyang'au, the man of her dreams. ‘Dad,plse
meet my friend Nyang’au.’ What will be your
initial reaction as the dad?
5)In Sweden there was a case of a parent
wanted to actually to name her child after
the alphabet using all 26 letters until the
court saw this and promptly denied her
petition.

Of course you should lend Mtokulipa if his creditworthiness is sound and proven, hire Mukora or Mwizi if they fit the bill; Taabu to do a lot of soul searching and see what he keeps doing wrong, Nyang’au to proceed and marry his love. But there are many who would hesitate to proceed as common sense dictates based merely on the names of these folks.

Research shows that the names we call our kids do matter.Forget those named after seasons or circumstances, those we understand.But some names we will never understand.
So why do parents call their kids ‘odd’ or 'strange' names like:

* Mwashetani
* Kaigangio (really. hehee..)
* Nguruwe
* Sungura
* Jolly
* God Bless
* Karianjahi
* Mukora
* Sungura
* Gatuang’ong’o
* My Dear
* Mwamgonjwa
* Desire

Is there a relationship between a name and the life a person leads? What are the strange names of people that SKerians aka Wazuans aka Wazuanites aka Wazuanese have heard?

Unbelievably I'm also amazed by why parents would leave such a lifetime tag on a child. A distance niece of mine named her first daughter 'AMAZING' just because she was amazed to have borne a baby. Just imagine this gal is just across the street and you wish to alert her when she is eighteen year old. Amazing! Amazing! I call you again, Amazing! can't you hear me, or something is wrong with your ears? Then reflect and and look around and see how what kind of amusement and wonder or even embarrassment to this kid gal. Anyway, to cut a long story short, parent do this for purposes of association with events, other people or objects believing their child would relive the person of event.

timska

i know of another buddy called muritu (in kiuk it means stupid)...

i even asked him to show me his ID just to clear doubts...

Really strange names ha!!. How would a typical Mt Kenya region parent go about explaining to his/her kids about Kenya's all time greatest athlete... Kipchoge Keino?

My friend from Nigeria has Godstimeisthebest as a first name!
I heard a student named loveliness,

Just crazy

You should read the credits after a naija movie. The name sunday is common. Saw one called 'joke'

Parents name their kids after things because it sounds cute, but the issue is that the child who gets this name will have to live with it. This child or children will have to live with the scrutiny and even possible rejection from jobs and other opportunities because of their name being hard to spell and even hard to pronounce.

Facts:

-A human being's name is the principal component in her person,
perhaps a piece of her soul,
-an improper name could do damage to any part of the human
conscious or unconscious,
-A strange name can result in people not taking the person
seriously,
-A baby's name can have an impact on self concept and confidence in
later years. The name determines the messages other people send
the child, either verbally or nonverbally. In essence you are your
name!
- It can affect the child's image about his self for the worse or
better
- an improper name can result in a child having difficulties as an
adult in their career.

Martin Mwangi Wairimu

Some of the names given by the older generation had a purpose. For example, in some communities, they gave you the name of a fierce animal if the child born just before you had died before you were born. This was meant to ward off the spirit of death. I gues it worked as the kids are grown ups now still passing on the name without understanding the purpose.

We need people who can document our cultures so that we can understand ourselves as taught by the African and not the white man.

p.s As far as Nigeria goes, I think that after naming about 130M people, one has very little creativity left