NIKANOR AGA LUDJI Pengarang Soleman Dapa Taka Dosen Pembimbing 1 Zantty O. Padahana Dosen Pembimbing 2 Elisna Huan Ketua Penguji

This research is about the Forms, Meaning and the Purpose of Self- Naming Tradition in Sabunese. This research aims to find out forms, meaning and the purpose of Self-Naming Tradition in Sabunese, The writer has formulated three research questions in this study as follows: (1) What are the forms of Self-Naming Tradition in Sabunese? (2) What are the Meaning and Purpose of Self-Naming Tradition in Sabunese. This research was been qualitative descriptive research. The research started from 05-10 December 2024. The respondents of this research were Fiften students inSabuRaijua Regency. The writer conducted an in-depth interview and Documentation. The writer analysed and described the result of the students’ Interview sheet of fifteen students in Sabu Raijua Regency and also Documented the Process of gathering the data while interview.The result shows that the naming system of Sabunese community has a distinctiveness that is influenced by the socio-cultural conditions adopted, so that a person can have three types of names, namely by (Ngara Hawu), (Ngara Bani) and (Ngara Pewaje). Keywords: Naming System, Ngara Hawu, Ngara Bani, Ngara Pewaje