Efik names are names borne by the Efik people of Southern Nigeria and Western Cameroon. The naming system of the Efik is unique and differs from contemporary African names in several ways. The word for name in Efik is Enyiñ and the act of assigning a name to a child is Usio enyiñ.[1]
Like many cultures, The naming of an Efik child takes place at a naming ceremony.[2] Unlike many Nigeria names, most Efik names do not possess literal meanings but store information about a child. Such information may include the circumstances of the child's birth, the day or time the child was born and the family the child comes from. The lack of literal meaning in many Efik names is because the practice of assigning literal sentences as names to children was rare. In modern times, The most common practice among the Efik is to assign a child the name of an ancestor or a parent. Every Efik child has at least four different names which include birth names (enyiñ emana), given names (ata enyiñ/usio enyiñ), nicknames (udori enyiñ or nditik enyiñ) and honorific or pet names (enyiñ uko or enyiñ akparawa).[3] So important was the act of naming a child that every individual in the average Efik family or house was expected to be able to recite their seven ancestral names in an exercise known as Utịñ emana, (Declaration of Ancestry).
^Simmons, Analysis of the reflection, p.304
^Simmons, Sexual life, p.157
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