Friday, October 8, 2010

Awesome Samoan Names

We were discussing some of the more imaginitive names Samoans have decided to name their children. This came up when Meg met Han Solo. As it turns out, this has been a topic of discussion many times over, as we don't have much else to talk about. These are all actual names of actual people. So here it is, the latest update of awesome Samoan names:

29
Abcde
Aetalo - means eat taro
Afasene (half-a-cent)
Air Jordan
Alcapone
Anewvision
Asoluaoiuni (2nd of June... he'll never forget his birthday and neither will you!)
Army and Navy (Brothers)
Baby
Batchlor [sic]
Bear
Beaver Ho Ching
Billclinton
Boyblue
Budweiser
California
Christmas
Cinderella
Clever
Conference
Congress
Disciple
Dynamite
Fa'afetai ("Thank you")
Fa'afetai Fa'afetai Jr.
Fa'asoesa (a formal way of saying "total pain in the ass")
Fabulous
Fantastic
Fiapapalagi ("Happy white person")
Gasoliga (remember the g=n)
Hail-Mary
Han Solo
Happy
Hollandaise
Hulk
Hurricane
Kirisimasi ("Christmas")
Kuwait
Larrybird
LBJ (this refers to both the president and his namesake hospital)
Leo Leo (told to the police while being booked. "leoleo" in Samoan means police. The police didn't get it)
Lima (5 or hand in Samoan, was probably the fifth kid)
Lua (2)
Mac Year (mispelling of Macgyver)
Marie Antoinette Resurrected
Mastard Seed [sic]
Moonstar
Muliai ("asseater")
New Year
Nixon
Numero
Omaha
Oti ("dead")
Pago Pago
Pigeon Shit in Samoan
Pluto
Ponce de Leon
Popeye
Poti ("dick")
Pretty
Princess
Pu'u Brown
Queen.
Rainmaker
Rapture
Rectal
Rocky and Rambo (brothers)
Roketi (Rocket---tons of those)
Saddam
Salvation & Goodwill (brothers)
Samoa Samoa
Saumaleatomeaai (means "come and bring the bag of food")
Shaqkobe or Kobeshaq
Socrates
Souvenir
Sterchicht
Superbowl
Tajmahal
Tutuila
Two brothers, possibly twins, one named Eddie the other Edwin
Ultimate Warrior
United States of America
United States of American Samoa
United States of Samoa

1 comment:

Greg said...

This is great stuff, how did you come up with the list?