Oh well, I have shown some curiosity and it has been met with hostility.
I have said out of those names, I love the name Ibari however I eel neutral about Isa because it sounds more distinctly European as a prefix and that is what the public will think it’s an abbreviation of when they initially hear it said.
No problem with that but I think the OP understandably wants a name that is pleasing to UK ears BUT also would like it to be an interesting African name.
Isa is a short name that sounds like a nickname of longer, more popular European female names, so blah to most people.
@RishisProudMum do you not think you have pretty high expectations for the general UK public to have an interest or an awareness in thousands of African names in various languages?!!
The majority of people in England have enough difficulty pronouncing many Irish names, and a good few Welsh ones!! This is the reality. It isn’t an ideal world.
It’s a case of positive encouragement in these matters, I think.
You could look at it this way, if I was on an African naming forum, and I suggested a list of British names on there and a fellow African poster appeared to say that one of my British names was already a much used African pre-fix to a name that was bland as a three letter name, I would be pleased to know that, it would help the OP form an opinion. I would be proud of my British heritage (as the African OP poster is) and would like to think I would be choosing a moniker that is British, and not an already commonly used African pre-fix/nickname.
Next thing, an irate Brit appears to say that honestly, rthe African poster commenting on the British OP, really should be more ware of the origins of the hundreds of Celtic, French and Anglo Saxon names!
However the general public in that African country’s forum have little concept of any of that because, just as in the UK, the majority of the pubic eye figures were African and there was little information about these Irish, Scots and Welsh names and cultures.
I would think that person had unrealistic expectations of the general public and slightly off their rocker.