Check if your name is included, Lol. If you are upto 20 years and above, check your name, it has gone obsolete already. These names used to be loved. They were very popular and as the bearers grow older, their names seem to go with them as babies no longer bear those names. Times have changed. Internet gadget babies now bear names that either sound sweet or have beautiful meanings. These days, even if the meaning is great, parents won’t use it if it doesn’t sound Funky, English or posh. The sound of a name has a way of making Nigerian parents love it. Pregnant moms go Online before their babies are born, Asking Google for “Nigerian names that sound English” Yoruba names that sound English” Igbo names that sound English” Etc, Etc.
The sound of a name is beginning to play a great role on how popular or unpopular it will get. These names listed below are almost extinct in Nigeria some are gone and forgotten. Only very few kids still bear them if any at all:
- Grace
- Elizabeth
- Stella
- Agatha
- Patience
- Deborah
- Virginia
- Eugenia
- Peace
- Glory
- Martha
- Endurance
- Maria
- Loveth
- Grace
- Monica
- Mercy
- Faith
- Mary
- Donatus
- Simon
- Abigail
- Titus
- Ignatius
- Isaiah
- Boniface
- Linus
- Romanus
- Dorcas
- Nkechi
- Mildred
- Linda
- Linus
- Ambrose
- Ngozi
- Sandra
- Nkechi
- Paulina
- Tony
- Monday
- Cornelius
- Timothy
- Virginia
- Gabriel
- James
- Queen
- Susan
- Felicia
- Patricia
- Rose
- Janet
- Miracle
- Melinda
- Brenda
- Angela
- Agnes
- Jessica
- Josephine
- Jane
- Joan
- Tina
- Gertrude
- Deborah
- Destiny
- Bose
- Nancy
- Ijeoma
- Ifeoma
- Cecilia
- Nelly
- Meg
- Gina
- Lara
- Angela
- Teresa
- Joyce
- Pamela
- Precious
- Mirian
- Judith
- Magdalene
- Evelyn
- Dickson
- Virginia
- Iquo
- Atim
- Edet
- Okon
- Christabel
- Rita
- Anne
- Naomi
- Esther
- Sarah
- Rachel
- Beatrice
- Nancy
- Prince
- Imelda
- Mabel
- Sharon
- Rose
- Kate
- Victoria
- Dora
- Marycollette
- Winifred
- Tonia
- Frances
- Comfort
- Anne
- Maureen
Can you give us one name you will never call your new born child?