Nigerian Name Generator

How this list was compiled: A selection by a written rule, built on 3 October 2026. Nigeria publishes no national count of given names, so nothing here says how common a name is. A name is listed when a source states its language and its meaning or origin. Yoruba (119 names): the Yoruba given-name entries of English Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Yoruba_given_names, CC BY-SA 4.0, 233 entries read that day) that state a meaning, less one whose title on English Wikipedia leads to a single living person; the card quotes it, and the spelling with tone marks is the entry's headword. Hausa (67 names): the Hausa given-name entries there (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Hausa_given_names, 111 entries) whose etymology glosses the word or words the name is made of, or that say when the name is given (16 names for the day or season of birth, 12 of them for a day of the week), or that come from Arabic and give an English form (18 cards). Igbo (69 names): the articles in English Wikipedia's category 'Igbo given names' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Igbo_given_names, 110 articles read that day) whose opening names Igbo, calls the name a name given to a person and not a surname only, and gives the name's meaning in Igbo in quotation marks with a cited source; the card quotes that meaning, in American spelling, and 13 articles whose meaning carries no citation are left out. The dictionary holds only four Igbo given names, so the Igbo cards rest on Wikipedia and on the sources its articles cite, which are websites about names; a reader who knows Igbo should check them. Who a name is given to (girls, boys or both) is the source's statement; 9 Igbo cards whose article does not say stand under both. Many meanings name God or a deity, and are printed as the source gives them. Four Hausa names whose gloss speaks of slavery, of children who died young or of skin color are left out (Baiwa, Bawa, Barau, Jatau). Names from Edo, Efik and other languages of Nigeria are not listed: no source read gave their meanings. The plain spelling used for sorting drops tone marks and under-dots and is made here. No speaker of Yoruba, Igbo or Hausa has read the list, and it names no person. Licence: Drawn from English Wiktionary and English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The selection is our own work.