1. Fig 1: Hoima-Bujumbura Parish

2. Fig 2: Q. Can you please one by one tell me your name and why you were given it? A. Nkiboinehati (I have just realised it [that this is a blessing]): seventeen children were born before me and out of those fourteen died. I was the last born... A. Birakurataki (it will follow others): twelve children before me died and they thought that I would also die... A. Bagwiraguza (they darken the heart): there was someone talking badly about the family. A. Bagambakabiri (that people are double edged): someone who comes to you and pretends that he is for you and starts talking ill things about someone but turns around, goes to that person to tell him all that you have said... That is the situation that prevailed when I was born. A.Atalimugere: I was born weak and the name comes from a proverb ‘atalimugere akusobora naasamba’, that if you are a weak person whoever wants to will step on you.[1][1] [1] Male focus group discussion, 6 Aug. 2006 (transcripts are in the possession of the author). The participants were aged 65-80.

3. Fig 3: Births and Deaths in Bunyoro (1910-24) According to Chiefs' Returns 0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 19101912 1914191619181920 1922 1924 live births deaths

4. Fig 4: Still Births as a Percentage of All Births 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 1910191119121913 1914191519161917191819191920 1921 192219231924 %

5. FIG 5: The frequency of mortality-related names in colonial Bunyoro

6. Fig 6: Relationship Between Parental Perceptions of Mortality Risk and Birth Spacing

7. FIG 5: Frequency of mortality-related names in post-colonial Bunyoro

8. Figure 6: Distribution of baptismal age by name category

9. FIGURE 7: The changing frequency of religious names