What is the meaning and tribal Origin of these names; Bello, Sanni, Danjuma and Lawal? The following names (especially the first and last one) are often used across different tribes of North-central and some part of south-west but their meaning is not easy to decipher. Please help if you know their meanings.

dannyjesutofunmi:
What is the meaning and tribal Origin of these names; Bello, Sanni, Danjuma and Lawal? The following names (especially the first and last one) are often used across different tribes of North-central and some part of south-west but their meaning is not easy to decipher. Please help if you know their meanings.

Bello is Fulani name which means helper and because Sir Ahmadu Bello is popular figure in Hausa land, any male child named Ahmadu or Ahmed are nicknamed "Bello"
Sanni/Sani an arabic name meaning majestic or brilliant.
Danjuma is an Hausa name named after a male child born on Friday. The female name is "Jummai"
Awwal is an Arabic name meaning popular and origin which Hausas and other tribes like Yorubas and others misspelt as" Lawal" and "Lawali"

Thanks so much Mr DanZubair

DanZubair:
Bello is Fulani name which means helper and because Sir Ahmadu Bello is popular figure in Hausa land, any male child named Ahmadu or Ahmed are nicknamed "Bello"
Sanni/Sani an arabic name meaning majestic or brilliant.
Danjuma is an Hausa name named after a male child born on Friday. The female name is "Jummai"
Awwal is an Arabic name meaning popular and origin which Hausas and other tribes like Yorubas and others misspelt as" Lawal" and "Lawali"

sanni mean second while awal mean first e.g muhammad ul awwal,muhammad the first and muhammad sanni,muhammad the second.

abdelrahman:
sanni mean second while awal mean first e.g muhammad ul awwal,muhammad the first and muhammad sanni,muhammad the second.

Muhammad Awwal, Muhammad Thani

What of Badamasi?

RedboneSmith:
What of Badamasi?

it is yorubanised name of badmus.badmus mean gift of God but i don't know the origin of the name!

RedboneSmith:
What of Badamasi?

baaballiyo danzubair

Lawani means onye ala in Igbo if the lawanis that post on Nairaland are anything to go by.

VomeSchakleton:


baaballiyo danzubair

The name "Badamasi" originated from the name of a jurist, scholar and poet of the Maliki Madh-hab (school of thought) Abu Abdul Allah Shams al din Muhammad al badamasi, he wrote alot of books and commentaries on Malikiyya Islamic jurisprudence and his works were well known and studied by Hausaland Scholars of the 18-19th Century.

In Hausaland his poem "Al-Badamasiyya fi madh-al_nabi s.a.w" (The Badamasi in the praise of the prophet pbuh), was well known and this I believe is wat made Hausa people started naming their Sons after him, as its the tradition of Hausa people (of 18-19th) to name their children after renown Islamic scholars or sheiks E.g.

Sheik Ahmad al-Tijan - Tijjani.
Sheik Abdulqadir al-Gilan - Jilana/Jelani
Sheik Jalaluddeen al-suyut - Suyuudi

As for the meaning of the name I dont think it has any meaning bc its the name of the region or town the sheik hailed from, bc that was the style of prolific writers and Sheiks of the Islamic Middle age; to put at the end of their names the name of their towns/region and the school of thought they belong to or the Sufi order they belong to.

So just like

Tijjani, Buhari, Jilani, Suyudi
among others were names of towns/regions so also is "Badamasi".
But actually I cant trace in which region or Country this location was, but the scholar was believed to be from Egypt.

dannyjesutofunmi:
What is the meaning and tribal Origin of these names; Bello, Sanni, Danjuma and Lawal? The following names (especially the first and last one) are often used across different tribes of North-central and some part of south-west but their meaning is not easy to decipher. Please help if you know their meanings.

Bello is a Fulani name, its correct pronounciation is "Beldo or Ballu" which means "Sweetness' in fulfulde but it was slightly corrupted to Bello. The full name is Muhammad Bello, it became popular because of the first Sultan of the Sokoto caliphate Sultan Muhammad Bello (r.1817-1837), and later in the 20th century because of the Sardauna of Sokoto and Premier of the Northern Region Sir Ahmadu Bello.

Sani- is a Hausa/Fulani name with Origin from the Arabic word "As-saani" which means "The second". The full name is Muhammad Saani.

Danjuuma- is a Hausa name which means "He that was born on a Friday" .

Lawal/Lawan- is also a Fulani name its correct pronounciation is "Lawol" but corrupted to "Lawal/Lawan which means "path" in fulfulde. The full name is also "Muhammad Lawol"