name
Houngbedji
hoong-BEH-djee
huŋˈbɛdʒiListen
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Syllable breakdown
Houngbedji
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Fon (Benin/Nigeria)
- Meaning
- a Fon name from Benin meaning one who has been protected by the spirits of the ancestors or the vodun have kept him safe; the Fon people are the cultural founders of the Dahomey kingdom and their naming traditions are deeply intertwined with vodun religious practice, in which ancestral spirits and divine forces are believed to act directly on the lives of the living, especially newborns
- Gender
- male
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