Significance of Names

Another example of rituals could be the significance of the three names Chike was given. This is what separated Chike from a lot of Nigerian children is the names he was given at baptism. “John” is a Christian white man’s name, signifying the importance of a son in the family, which can also correlate to predominantly upper class societies in household family rituals. Obiajulu is more of a common name in African culture, meaning “the mind at last is at rest,” which can symbolize that since he is the sixth child and the first born son, then maybe the parents were finally put it “rest” after having Chike born. And the name Chike is pretty self-explanatory as that his the name everyone calls him, but I am not too sure if that has much significance or what it means in Nigerian terms. Overall, it is interesting that a boy his age has three different names all residing from different cultural platforms.