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Name Giving In Chadian Culture

The ways that Chadians name their children is different than how we dole out our names. I can’t speak for people in the Southern buy prednisone online part of the country, but here in the North, while there does involve a measured balance of giving a new name and passing on a family one just like us, the end result will most likely surprise a westerner.

Chadians give one name to their child, the first name. Their second name is the name of their father, while their third name is the name of their paternal grandfather. It’s the same for boys and girls and marriage doesn’t purchase Zoloft change it. As a matter of organization, I really like it, but I was shocked the first time I heard a woman tell Sonja that her name was Fatima Ahmed Mohammad (what a boy’s name as part of her name?). For reference, if we named our children like Chadians, they would be named:

Nehemiah Jacob Deland
Evangeline Jacob Deland
Athanasius Jacob Deland
Hadassah Jacob Deland
Perpetua Jacob Deland

Now, religion plays a huge role in the popularity of names here and the pickings are a bit slim for my “individualistic” tastes. Don’t believe me? Here’s a sample of students in my English class here:

Abdel Aziz
Adam Abdrahmam Ahmed
Adam Ali Ibrahim
Alhabiib Zekariya Matar
Bakatche Moussa
Faisel Hamad Ali
Jidou Hissen Mesri
Mahmoud Mohammed Abdallah
Mahmoud Suliman Bakhit
Mohammad Abdrahman Ali
Mohammad Ali Hassan
Mohammad

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Ali Mohammad
Mohammad Hassan Alderdery
Mohammad Matar Ishaak
Tofik Tiiman

Ha….over half the guys in my class are named Mohammad or Mahmoud (another variation of Mohammad). I used to get bent out of shape if I had three Johns or Marys in a class. In the end, it’s just another way of bestowing names that’s very fascinating to learn about from another culture. In a show of how much our older kids have Prozac online grown accustomed to Chadian culture, Evangeline answered some young ladies’ question about what her father’s name was by telling them “Yakuub”. When they responded by saying, “Oh, so your name is *Lina Yakuub…”, Evangeline smiled and said, “Yep, that’s my name!”

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* Many people in Chad call Evangeline “Lina”, as it is easier for them to say.

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