God’s Gift Achiuwa is a college basketball player and that is his given name.
Can’t link on phone but: no pressure son just be better than Buddha’s fat kid.
You know he gets made fun of…
Tell that to Goodluck Jonathan.
Why would the idiots who named him call him that? Why not Theodore? That’s what “God’s Gift” means.
I’d rather have this “God’s Gift” http://www.businessreviewcanada.ca/lifestyle/cars-toys/worlds-largest-emerald-to-be-auctioned-in-canada
Calling them ‘idiots’ is a bit out of order. While such a practice seems bizarre and hilarious to us, it appears to be a relatively normal practice in Nigeria where Achiuwa comes from.
Cf. the name of Nigeria’s president, that I mentioned upthread.
I’ve seen it in Polynesian communities - a lad with the christian name “St John the Baptist” wasn’t unusual, and none of that Sinjin business, either.
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Hey, since Bautista is “the” traditional Spanish butler’s name, no making fun of them!
I’ve known women called Regalo and Presente, in both cases the word means gift and the “of god” was implied. Also a Don de Dios, no implications there.
My favorite in Spanish is Conception Immaculata. Using a theological concept to name a child? How should atheists then name their daughters? Pythagorean Theorem?
Quite a few names translate as “God’s Gift”. Besides Theodore (cited above by Baker There’s also (allowing for non-Christan gods)
Godiva (from Anglo-Saxon God Gifu)
**Deodat
Apollodorus
Ramses
Thuthmose
Moses ** (accepting the theory that this is in originan Egyptian name, with the Theophorus part snipped off. The “-mose” part means “child of”, so “Ramses” is “child of Ra”)
The idea of calling a child a “gift od gad” is pretty obvious – where else do kids come from? The example in the OP is only making this more plain in clear English.
Hmmm, “Hypotenuse Jones” has a nice ring to it.
Lot of those, too. The name Joel basically means “Yah(weh) is God”
Then there’s all those virtues:
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Faith
Hope
Charity
Temperence
Patience
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Coming up with Securlar Equivalent could be a fun game, especially based on math:
Pons Asinorm Whittaker
(Witch of ) Agnesi Jones
Koenigsburg Bridge Matthews
Mobius Strip Chambers
Tesseract Flanders
Inmaculada Concepción, dude. You’re mixing your Spanish, your English and I’m guessing Italian.
You missed Nathaniel (or Nathanael) which also means “gift of God” from the Hebrew.
Oh, I know the list isn’t complete/. There are others.
I just meant that, like Theodore, Nathaniel is a fairly popular English name. Unlike Apollodorus. 
IIRC, my grandmother’s cousin, born in rural Quebec in the 1920’s, had the given name “Dieu-Donné”, French for “God-Given”.
It would be worth dating him just for the fun of introducing him to your parents.
As long as his last name isn’t “Towomen”
“World Peace” is a Laker’s basketball player formerly known as Ron Artest.