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Dosu

Fon · First name · male · birth order name

A traditional Fon name for the first son born after a set of twins. Independently attested both as a given name (borne by King Agaja before he took the throne) and as "Dossou", one of the single most common surnames in Benin today.

Source: Fon birth-order naming, cross-referenced across Wikipedia (Agaja) and Beninese surname-frequency data (surnam.es, "Dossou" — 59,745+ occurrences)

Other Fon first names

A historically documented Fon name meaning "the dynasty has not fallen", given to a Dahomey prince who became the kingdom's final king after French conquest.

More birth order names, from other cultures

Given to the second-born of twins, from "cen", meaning "behind", reflecting the second twin's position in birth order.

Okello · Acholi

Given to a child born after a set of twins. One of the best-known Acholi names outside Uganda (borne by former Ugandan president Tito Okello).

The second-born son. Female form: Maanu.

The third-born son. Female form: Mansa. This is the origin of the surname Mensah.

Karamoko · Bambara

Manding for "cleric-teacher", a title-name reflecting the historical importance of Quranic scholarship among the Bambara and neighboring Manding-speaking peoples.

N'golo · Bambara

Traditionally given to a third-born son; said to mean roughly "I have procreated abundantly" from the father's perspective.

Given to the firstborn son.

Given to the firstborn son. One of the most common Ga family names, carried on from this birth-order origin.

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