Entry № 4454 · Other origin

Ikem Ikem — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EE-kem /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"My strength"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "my strength".

Ikem is a girls' name meaning my strength.

My strength.

The name in its native script.

Ikem
Transliteration
Ikem
Pronunciation
/ ˈiː.kɛm /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ikem stands.

Ikem does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ikems before her.

Real people

In fiction
Ikenga / Nri Kingdom
Igbo my strength + Ike power + Ikenga personal-strength deity + Nri Kingdom 948-1911 longest-continuous African monarchy + ~50 million Igbo speakers + Chinua Achebe
Igbo heritage

Names connected to Ikem.

The number behind Ikem.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ikem reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.