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Njeri Njeri — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ nuh-JEH-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Kikuyu (Lupita Nyong'o middle name)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Kikuyu)

A name that means "kikuyu (lupita nyong'o middle name)".

Njeri is from the Kikuyu Njeri — meaning traveler, one who is associated with the warriors — one of the nine daughters of the Kikuyu founding ancestors Gikuyu and Mumbi. Njeri is one of the Kikuyu feminine clan names — central to traditional Kikuyu cultural heritage.

Kikuyu traveler / warrior associate (Kenyan).

The name in its native script.

Njeri
Transliteration
Njeri
Pronunciation
/ nəˈdʒɛ.ri /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Njeri stands.

Njeri 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.

Njeris before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Njeri
Kikuyu founding ancestor daughter.

Names connected to Njeri.

The number behind Njeri.

2

The Peacemaker

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