When a child is born,it is kept indoors for at least seven days. During this period the mother is allowed to come outdoors but the baby is not supposed to come out except in a case of emergency or when it is really necessary. On the eighth day, the child is given a name.The child is not assigned a name before the eighth day because during that period it is considered as a stranger from the ancestral world who has come for a visit.

However, the logical reason was that in the ancient days when child mortality was very high a lot children died before their eighth day and therefore the elders decided that they are going to wait for the eighth day after which if the baby is still alive, then it would be considered as a human being and then given a name. The waiting period was to lessen the pain that the mother would go through should the baby die before the eighth day since the elders believed it is more painful for to name the baby for it to die before the eighth day than for it to die nameless.This trend has been adopted by many African communities and the newer generation still in the dark about why babies are named on the eight day of their birth.

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itz biblical not cultural

Ha no even know

Some name their child before birth. How about that?

Why some babies already have their own names before they gave birth to them.