Entry № 339 · Other origin

Akanke Akanke — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-KAHN-keh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"To meet and pet"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "to meet and pet".

Akanke is from Ákánkẹ́.

To meet and pet.

The name in its native script.

Ákánkẹ́
Transliteration
Ákánkẹ́
Pronunciation
/ əˈkɑːn.kɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Akanke stands.

Akanke 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.

Akankes before her.

Real people

In fiction
Yoruba family-cherishing
Yoruba to meet and pet/cherish + àkán to meet + kẹ́ pamper cherish + family-cherishing naming + Ile-Ife + Oyo Empire 1300-1896 + ~50 million Yoruba speakers
Yoruba heritage

Names connected to Akanke.

The number behind Akanke.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Akanke reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.