Surname & clanMasculine

Okafor

/oh-KAH-for/

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Meaning

A boy born on Afọ market day.

The Igbo week has four market days (Eke, Orie, Afọ, Nkwọ), and children were named for the day they arrived: Okafor is "male child of Afọ". Now a common surname, it still carries the old calendar inside it.

Its siblings survive as surnames too: Okeke (Eke), Okorie (Orie), Okonkwo (Nkwọ), the last made famous by Achebe.

In the same family

OkonkwoThe Nkwọ-day counterpart; the hero of "Things Fall Apart".

Who carries it

Igbo (Ndi Igbo)

Provenance

generated: 2026-07-04
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