Connecting African Heritage - Male

Mellow and musical.

Rarely used these days, Onesimus was the name of an escaped enslaved man in the Bible who met St. Paul in prison. Its Greek sound is obvious, and its four syllables make it one that might be hard to wear in the twenty-first century.

More substantial than it sounds: Shango was the god of thunder and legendary ancestor of the Yoruba people of Nigeria.

King Tafari was the last king of Ethiopia. He is worshipped today as an incarnation of God by Rastafarians.

Tau, rhyming with cow, is a simple straightforward name with roots in two languages and cultures, the Kaurna language spoken by indigenous Australian people or the African Tswana language, a Bantu language spoken by five million people.

Tayo, also written as Táyò in Yoruba, is a name that sounds as joyful as its meaning.

A common unisex name used frequently in South Africa.

Themba is a common male name in southern African countries such as Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Eswatini.

In Norway, a Grandpa Name.