Entry № 2290 · Shona origin

Danai Danai — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ dah-NAH-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Shona
Meaning
"Love (Danai Gurira, Michonne + Okoye)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Shona)

A name that means "love (danai gurira, michonne + okoye)".

Danai is from the Shona word danai — "love, to love" — common as a feminine first name in Zimbabwe. Her 2015 play Eclipsed — about five Liberian women during the Second Liberian Civil War — was the first Broadway play with an all-Black, all-women cast, crew, and director (Liesl Tommy); Tony Award nomination for Best Play.

Love (Danai Gurira, Michonne + Okoye) — a Shona name.

The name in its native script.

Danai
Transliteration
Danai
Pronunciation
/ dəˈnɑː.iː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Danai stands.

Danai 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.

Danais before her.

Real people
Danai Gurira
American-Zimbabwean actress.
born 1978
In fiction
Michonne
The Walking Dead.
2012
Okoye
Black Panther.
2018

Names connected to Danai.

The number behind Danai.

2

The Peacemaker

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