Entry № 7374 · Basque origin

Nekane Nekane — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ neh-KAH-neh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Basque
Meaning
"Sorrows"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "sorrows".

Nekane is the Basque equivalent of Dolores — Our Lady of Sorrows.

Sorrows — a Basque name.

The name in its native script.

Nekane
Transliteration
Nekane
Pronunciation
/ ne.ˈka.ne /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nekane stands.

Nekane 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.

Nekanes before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Nekane.

The number behind Nekane.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nekane reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.