The social imperatives underlying the naming of the child seereer and the protocol that rules outdoor ceremony remain an original and fascinating research topic. The seereer first name has an informative character on, for instance, the geographical origin, the circumstances of birth, the date of birth, the sex, the character, among others, of the child. This study on the Seereer traditional naming system is semantically oriented to provide a better understanding of such a cultural fact. The article tries also to explore the origin of some seereer names. It also aims to study the process of the traditional way of naming of seereer people, to show how the name is given, who is entitled to give the name, then to draw up the typology of names in the Seereer culture, so as to list the social peculiarities of first names, the social factors of choice, through a decipherment of the semantic content (message to be grasped), the social value and the symbolism that the seereer first name encodes. Through the seereer first name, appears a set of things of a strong sociocultural connotation. The terminology of the Seereer names includes items with value of simulation, conjuration, prayers, etc.