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Virtually everything on earth has a "name" and name implies to both living and nonliving things. Name could be said to be a unique identifier that distinguishes a particular person or thing from the other. Even the Bible tells us that when God made the first man Adam, he gave him the task of naming all the animals he created, therefore "naming" is a very strenous process of according names to someone/something. Of course, they are many events, occurrences or happenings surrounding a given name, let's get to know some;

I am legally known in formal places as
PRECIOUS IME SYLVANUS, my parents (dad to be precise) gave me the above name during my naming ceremony some days after I came into the world. What does the above three names mean??

PRECIOUS; as we all know, Precious is an English name which means valuable, cherished, important, treasure, pearl, Incomparable etc, omor me na hot cake ooo😂.

IME; This is my middle name and it's my dad's name as well, it means endurance, patience, ability to withstand problems and trials.

SYLVANUS; This is my surname which belongs to my awesome paternal grandfather, it is a biblical name of a man who was Paul's co-worker in dispensing God's word.

As I said earlier, my parents gave me the name I bear till now, since it was an English name, both decided to call me in our native language so my grandparents could call me without much difficulty,
Mom called me nsongurua
Dad called me mkpouto
Both names mean "Precious"

Where I come from, you are given a name due the circumstances surrounding your birth, the time, market days, season, position in the family etc. It is our custom that a child is named exactly seven days after birth where a naming is held before the the name is given, they are many Akwa Ibom names that may intrigue you;

Male names	meanings
Okon	Born at night
Ekong	warrior
Offiong	born at moonlight
Enang	cow which signifies agility
Ekpo	ghost

Female names	meanings
Etido	goodness
Akon	born at night
Affiong	born at moonlight
Ukeme	ability
Eno obong	God's gift

I actually love the name Eno-obong pretty much because it acknowledges God as the creator and giver of all children.

I detest the name Ekpo, this name which signifies ghost could have a bad impact on its bearer, it spells doom and promotes ill fate.

Note that female names that take A sound mean the same thing as the male names in my culture eg Okon (male)/Akon(female) both mean born at night.

While growing up, I decided to take a name for myself, I settled for Pearl as it is an alternative for my birth name as it means costly, rare, Precious. On all social media handles, I am known as Pearl and even close friends call me that.

I actually wanted to use my nickname Pearl on steemit platform but since it is a very unique platform, I decided to use my name Precious and added some figures to it (@precious123) to differentiate me from the many Precious' on the platform.

Names are very outstanding attributes that specify all things on earth, our names speak a whole lot about us. Therefore when given an opportunity to make use of names, we should make the right choices.
Special mention:
@ijelady
@samuel20
@ijebest
@preye2