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Nyongesa

Luhya · First name · male · birth circumstance

Given to a boy born on a Saturday.

Source: Luhya (Kenya) name; Behind the Name, entry "Nyongesa", which lists it as masculine. Earlier recorded here as unisex and as cross-checked with encyclopedia.com and everyculture.com; encyclopedia.com's Luhya entry, read directly, does not contain the name, and everyculture.com was not re-read.

Other Luhya first names

Given to a girl born during the heavy-rains season (female form of Wafula).

Given to a boy born during the heavy-rains season, among the Ababukusu (a Luhya sub-group).

Given to a boy born during the harvest season.

More birth circumstance names, from other cultures

From Arabic "awal" (first), given to a first-born child; reflects the centuries-deep Islamic influence on Hausa naming.

A boy born after a run of daughters.

From nna m ("my father") + dị ("lives, is alive"): "my father lives." Traditionally given to a boy born after the death of his father, grandfather or great-grandfather, believed to be that man returned. Borne by Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria's first president.

Given to a boy born at midnight. It is one of the Luo names for the time of day a child was born; a girl is given the same name beginning with A.

Dholuo for "born during the rainy season".

Leleito · Maasai

Given to a child born during a thunderstorm.

Roobaa · Oromo

"One who rains" — given for a birth during the rains.

Geeddi · Somali

From geedi ("journey, migration"): a boy born while the family was on the move with the herds.

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