Entry № 1981 · Other origin

Chigozie Chigozie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ chee-GOH-zee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"God bless"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Igbo)

A name that means "god bless".

Chigozie is from the Igbo Chigozie — Chi (God) + gozie (bless) — God bless, may God bless. Chigozie is one of the Igbo feminine names — central to traditional Nigerian + West African heritage.

God bless (Igbo).

The name in its native script.

Chigozie
Transliteration
Chigozie
Pronunciation
/ tʃiːˈɡoʊ.zi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Chigozie stands.

Chigozie 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.

Chigozies before her.

Real people
Chigozie Obioma
Nigerian novelist + The Fishermen 2015 Booker Prize shortlist + An Orchestra of Minorities 2019 Booker Prize shortlist + one of most-acclaimed contemporary African novelists.
born 1986
In fiction
Chigozie / Igbo Christianity
Igbo God bless + ~70% of Igbo people are Christian + Igbo Bible translation + Naming ceremony Igu Aha ~28 days after birth + Nri Kingdom 948-1911 + ~50 million Igbo speakers.
Igbo heritage

Names connected to Chigozie.

The number behind Chigozie.

1

The Leader

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