Popular Lastnames Used by SE Players.....

[Enugu II]

Ultimately, the name with most multiple entries is not surprising if you think about it. The most common last name used is Mohammed (Table 1). It appears in 11 entries! The closest other last names were distant second at six entries each.

...how many times players using those last names played for Nigeria is also insightful (Figure 1). Of the three, players with the last name "Lawal" have played a combined 208 times....

Click below for details:

http://eaglecity.blogspot.com/2018/01/p ... agles.html

[Damunk]

Mohammed is the commonest name in the world, so its not surprising.

[ANC]

Okoro?

[Obong]

EnuguII,
Very insightful and one for the archives. However, there's a typo. Ibrahim Mohammed certainly didn't play for us in 1881! Another observation, Okechukwu Uche, the central defence "Gentle Giant" of the 1994 and 1998 World Cups and one of the trojans of the 1996 Olympic team is not listed. Maybe his name is actually Uche Okechukwu, but he used "Uche" on his jersey at those tournaments.

[ogiso]

Very interesting. But I may have spotted some errors (maybe). First with Fregene - you have Augustine down twice, supposedly as two different persons? If memory serves me right, this is one and the same person - only that there was a massive gap between his two stints. Secondly you may have transposed the caps between the Kanus - surely Nwankwo had more caps than Ogbonna?

[jette1]

Ultimately, the name with most multiple entries is not surprising if you think about it. The most common last name used is Mohammed (Table 1). It appears in 11 entries! The closest other last names were distant second at six entries each.

...how many times players using those last names played for Nigeria is also insightful (Figure 1). Of the three, players with the last name "Lawal" have played a combined 208 times....

Click below for details:

http://eaglecity.blogspot.com/2018/01/p ... agles.html

Is there any correlation between names or how many times it appears and anything else ? And if not what a waste of bandwidth

[Nkume]

Best Eagles player name for me:

Romanus Orjinta!

2nd

Wilifred Agbonabare

[Enugu II]

EnuguII,
Very insightful and one for the archives. However, there's a typo. Ibrahim Mohammed certainly didn't play for us in 1881! Another observation, Okechukwu Uche, the central defence "Gentle Giant" of the 1994 and 1998 World Cups and one of the trojans of the 1996 Olympic team is not listed. Maybe his name is actually Uche Okechukwu, but he used "Uche" on his jersey at those tournaments.

Obong,

Thank you. Will be able to correct the typo right away. Eagle-eye on these. I am not certain of a few last names because sometimes media report last names as first names. Hoping others may be able to note errors like those if they are able to provide strong evidence.

[Enugu II]

Very interesting. But I may have spotted some errors (maybe). First with Fregene - you have Augustine down twice, supposedly as two different persons? If memory serves me right, this is one and the same person - only that there was a massive gap between his two stints. Secondly you may have transposed the caps between the Kanus - surely Nwankwo had more caps than Ogbonna?

There were actually two different Augustine Fregenes and my understanding is that they are not related. The one that played under Bonfrere (v Eritrea) was a young player at the time of his debut, several years after the initial one played for Berger in Nigeria from late 70s to early 1980s. Same with the two Peter Aniekes who are also listed.

You are very correct on the Kanus and that will be corrected.

[Thunder]

EIi, great compilation.

[ANC]

Best Eagles player name for me:

Romanus Orjinta!

2nd

Wilifred Agbonabare

Ademola Adeshina for me any day. The man demolished Roger Millar well well.

[Enugu II]

EIi, great compilation.

Thunder, thanks.

[Cmoke]

Nothing beats my boys:

Sia Sia

Okorowanta

Ilerika

[Tbite]

Best Eagles player name for me:

Romanus Orjinta!

2nd

Wilifred Agbonabare

There is a thread for that nah.

[Obong]

EnuguII,

You seem to have forgotten the Atuegbu brothers. Alloysius must have had enough appearances to pad up their stats,whie adding Andrew too. Enough to measure up to other names listed.

[Enugu II]

EnuguII,

You seem to have forgotten the Atuegbu brothers. Alloysius must have had enough appearances to pad up their stats,whie adding Andrew too. Enough to measure up to other names listed.

Obong,

Yea, both of them were quite good and Andrew would have made even more appearances if he had not left early to the USA. However, I did not include them since atleast three players would have shared the last name for a last name to be included. If Mathew had also played, Atuegbu would have been one of the last names included.

You can see the blog on Siblings/Father-Son here: http://eaglecity.blogspot.com/2016/05/s ... -team.html

Here is one on players who share first and last names:
http://eaglecity.blogspot.com/2016/12/n ... names.html

[BigMuze]

Abubakar Balarabe (late 80s)

[Dr. Sabinus Okoro Phd]

Ultimately, the name with most multiple entries is not surprising if you think about it. The most common last name used is Mohammed (Table 1). It appears in 11 entries! The closest other last names were distant second at six entries each.

...how many times players using those last names played for Nigeria is also insightful (Figure 1). Of the three, players with the last name "Lawal" have played a combined 208 times....

Click below for details:

http://eaglecity.blogspot.com/2018/01/p ... agles.html

I believe there was a Godwin Kanu from ACB that played for the eagles sometime in the 80's. Also the Okala brothers.

[ohenhen1]

Okonkwo

Babaginda

Ochechukwu

[Enugu II]

Ultimately, the name with most multiple entries is not surprising if you think about it. The most common last name used is Mohammed (Table 1). It appears in 11 entries! The closest other last names were distant second at six entries each.

...how many times players using those last names played for Nigeria is also insightful (Figure 1). Of the three, players with the last name "Lawal" have played a combined 208 times....

Click below for details:

http://eaglecity.blogspot.com/2018/01/p ... agles.html

I believe there was a Godwin Kanu from ACB that played for the eagles sometime in the 80's. Also the Okala brothers.

Dr. Okoro,

You may be referring to Godwin Eke, I believe. On the Okala brothers, I did not include any last names with less than three entries. The Okalas were only two. However, you can find both of them included in other article on siblings.

[Obong]

EnuguII,

You seem to have forgotten the Atuegbu brothers. Alloysius must have had enough appearances to pad up their stats,whie adding Andrew too. Enough to measure up to other names listed.

Obong,

Yea, both of them were quite good and Andrew would have made even more appearances if he had not left early to the USA. However, I did not include them since atleast three players would have shared the last name for a last name to be included. If Mathew had also played, Atuegbu would have been one of the last names included.

You can see the blog on Siblings/Father-Son here: http://eaglecity.blogspot.com/2016/05/s ... -team.html

Here is one on players who share first and last names:
http://eaglecity.blogspot.com/2016/12/n ... names.html

Thanks, EnuguII for the clarification. Interesting read. Keep 'em coming.

[1naija]

And you know why. This is like Disu 11.