Why is israel adesanya called israel?

[Bangkok ready d1]

Is there any relation with the country of israel or israel is just a common nigerian name and it's all a coincidence?

 

[PAPERCLIP30]

Because that’s his name

 

[SpiderCrawl]

Pretty sure it’s cause it’s his name.

 

[Ares Black]

His parents named him that.

 

[eddi]

Israel existed a long time ago as a middle eastern tribe/ group of people and talked about in religious books, euro jews just revived the name when they went there not invented it, it doesnt surprise me that its an old name passed around

 

[BooBoyMan]

Great thread

 

[Fahcough]

It's actually just Rael.

Nurse asked what is his name.

 

[boladiQup]

 

[ILove4MinutesHyuna]

Parents looked for a short cut of ensuring their son becomes rich and successful

 

[Klaavical]

Cuz Bethlehem is a girls name

 

[MeatWagon06]

Ban worthy Thread.

 

[Blayt7hh]

Same reason I’m called TbagsMcgeee

 

[Bangkok ready d1]

Everybody joking and shit but for real people made threads about jhonny walker being calle jhonny walker and people said that was strange because he's brazilian, now we got this guy that his name is a fucking country and nobody gives a shit

 

[Fahcough]

Everybody joking and shit but for real people made threads about jhonny walker being calle jhonny walker and people said that was strange because he's brazilian, now we got this guy that his name is a fucking country and nobody gives a shit

No one calls Tibau, Janigleison Alves

 

[Wolf Of Sherdog]

Is rael. Is normal

 

[TonyF2020]

Is there any relation with the country of israel or israel is just a common nigerian name and it's all a coincidence?

There was no country Israel before 1948. There was a nation of Israel, which is a prophet mentioned in Quran as well as Bible. So it actually started as a name. Quran mentions Jews as Banu Israel, the people to whome Allah sent messangers Moses, Aaron (his brother), Jesus, the son of Mary, and other messengers in the past. Some of them they killed, some rejected, some mocked, some of the Jewish tribes followed the messangers like Moses.

 

[Bangkok ready d1]

No one calls Tibau, Janigleison Alves

God damn thats his real name, gleison is already a strange as fuck name for a brazilian

 

[lsa]

Everybody joking and shit but for real people made threads about jhonny walker being calle jhonny walker and people said that was strange because he's brazilian, now we got this guy that his name is a fucking country and nobody gives a shit

Why is John "hands of stone" Lineker called that? He is Brazilian...

Because his parents named him John Lineker, his dad was a huge football fan.

Why is Anderson named Anderson? I mean thats a surname

 

[Deleted member 572945]

Nigerians are mostly Christian or Muslim and 'Israel' holds a special place in the stories of all the Abrahamic religions.

It's common for Christian cultures to have names like 'Israel' or 'Jesus' in the 2nd and 3rd worlds.

 

[Deleted member 510653]

I went to jr. high with a ginger kid named Israel... Dude looked like Hans from The 'Burbs. Don't know what happened to him, so it can be a white thang too, so to speak.