Entry № 7419 · Other origin

Ngina Ngina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ n-GEE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Mama Ngina Kenyatta (Kikuyu + Kenya First Lady)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Kikuyu)

A name that means "mama ngina kenyatta (kikuyu + kenya first lady)".

Ngina is from the Kikuyu Ngĩna — central Kenyan name. Ngina is one of the Kikuyu feminine names — central to traditional Kenyan + East African heritage.

Mama Ngina Kenyatta (Kikuyu).

The name in its native script.

Ngĩna
Transliteration
Ngĩna
Pronunciation
/ ŋˈɡiː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ngina stands.

Ngina 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.

Nginas before her.

Real people
Mama Ngina Kenyatta
Kenyan First Lady 1964-1978 + fourth wife of Jomo Kenyatta first President + mother of Uhuru Kenyatta fourth President 2013-2022 + Mau Mau Rebellion + Kenyatta dynasty.
born 1933
In fiction
Kikuyu naming
Kikuyu people ~7.7 million + nine traditional Kikuyu girl names + Mama Ngina Drive Mombasa + Mama Ngina Park Nairobi.
Kikuyu heritage

Names connected to Ngina.

The number behind Ngina.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ngina reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.