Entry № 5408 · West African origin

Ketanji Ketanji — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ keh-TAHN-jee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
West African
Meaning
"Lovely one (Ketanji Brown Jackson, first Black female US Supreme Court Justice)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (West African)

A name that means "lovely one (ketanji brown jackson, first black female us supreme court justice)".

Ketanji (full name Ketanji Onyika, "lovely one") was given by her parents from a list of West African names suggested by an aunt teaching in Africa. Her grandfathers were corporate executive and police chief; her parents named her after the West African word for "lovely."

Author of Lovely One (2024) — her memoir.

Lovely one (Ketanji Brown Jackson, first Black female US Supreme Court Justice) — a West African name.

The name in its native script.

Ketanji
Transliteration
Ketanji
Pronunciation
/ kəˈtɑːn.dʒi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ketanji stands.

Ketanji 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.

Ketanjis before her.

Real people
Ketanji Brown Jackson
First Black female US Supreme Court Justice.
born 1970
In fiction
Ketanji
Lovely One.
2024

Names connected to Ketanji.

The number behind Ketanji.

7

The Seeker

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