name
Akello
ah-KEL-oh
ɑːˈkɛlɔːListen
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Syllable breakdown
Akello
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Ateso (Uganda/Kenya)
- Meaning
- a feminine name in the Ateso language of the Iteso people of eastern Uganda and western Kenya, meaning she who follows or born after others; the Iteso are a Nilotic people whose naming traditions closely link a child's birth order and circumstances to the name chosen; Akello is widely given to daughters born after a series of sons or after a gap in births, and it encodes communal joy at the continuation of a family line in the expansive flatlands of the Lake Kyoga basin
- Gender
- female
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