Entry № 9384 · Scottish origin

Senga Senga — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SENG-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
Meaning
"Pure (Agnes backwards)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Scottish)

A name that means "pure (agnes backwards)".

Senga is a uniquely Scottish name — created by spelling Agnes backwards. Agnes itself means "pure" from the Greek hagnos.

Senga is widely used in Scotland.

Agnes backwards. The Scottish coinage.

The name in its native script.

Senga
Transliteration
Senga
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɛŋ.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Senga stands.

Senga 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.

Sengas before her.

Real people
Senga Nengudi
American sculptor.
born 1943
In fiction
Senga
Common in Scottish fiction.

Names connected to Senga.

The number behind Senga.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Senga reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.