Behind the Name: Comments for the name Abeni

Comments for ABENI:

It's pronounced a-be-NEE.

-- Caprice 7/9/2005

Now that's a way to welcome your daughter.

-- Anonymous User 7/30/2006

I suggested this to a professor who was expecting her first child (she'd found that it would be a girl), but she didn't take to it. It's a shame, for her family was hoping for a daughter and this would have been a good welcome.

-- gaelruadh19 1/10/2007

I'm sorry, but the meaning of this name makes me burst out laughing! But still, it is a nice-sounding name.

-- Georgia_kh 4/24/2007

Salawa Abeni is a popular Nigerian musician. She began her professional career in 1975, and released her debut album, Late General Murtala Ramat Mohammed, in 1976, on Leader Records. It became the first recording by a female artist to sell over a million copies in Nigeria.

-- Anonymous User 7/30/2007

I heard a similar meaning in Baby Names for the New Century, by Pamela Samuelson: "We prayed for a girl, and lo! She arrived!"

I was about eight or nine, possibly ten at the time. I shared it with my family, who thought it was a bit funny. :-)

-- Brianna Angela 8/15/2007

The meaning is simply precious.

-- Izartrix 9/3/2007

I'm in love with the meaning and it's quite amusing. I started laughing too! What a way to welcome a much wanted girl.

-- spaz123 9/17/2007

How did they fit a meaning that large into a name that small?

-- gio2475 7/31/2008

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