Entry № 11472 · Kikuyu origin

Wanja Wanja — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Kikuyu
Meaning
"A cherished daughter"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a cherished daughter".

Wanja is a name of Kikuyu origin, meaning a cherished daughter.

A cherished daughter — a Kikuyu name.

The name in its native script.

Wanja
Transliteration
Wanja
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Wanja stands.

Wanja 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.

Wanjas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Wanja.

The number behind Wanja.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Wanja reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.