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Oduor

Luo · First name · male · birth circumstance

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.

Source: Luo (Kenya, Tanzania) name; Face2Face Africa, "7 most interesting ways Africans name their children" (12 July 2018), section "Season or time of day". Earlier recorded as cross-checked with Village Volunteers' Luo Cultural Guide, which was not re-read. Paukwa's account of Luo naming gives Owuor and Awuor for a birth between midnight and 2 a.m.; whether that is the same name is not established.

Other Luo first names

Okoth
Dholuo for "born during the rainy season".
Oluoch
From Dholuo "luoch" (mist).

More birth circumstance names, from other cultures

Lawal · Hausa
From Arabic "awal" (first), given to a first-born child; reflects the centuries-deep Islamic influence on Hausa naming.
Tanko · Hausa
A boy born after a run of daughters.
Nnamdi · Igbo
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.
Nyongesa · Luhya
Given to a boy born on a Saturday.
Wafula · Luhya
Given to a boy born during the heavy-rains season, among the Ababukusu (a Luhya sub-group).
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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