Entry № 7422 · Igbo origin

Ngozi Ngozi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ en-GOH-zee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Igbo
Meaning
"Blessing"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Igbo)

A name that means "blessing".

Ngozi is the Igbo word for "blessing." Used as a unisex name in Igbo communities.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (born 1954) is the Nigerian economist who became the first woman and first African to lead the World Trade Organization in 2021.

Blessing. The WTO Director-General.

The name in its native script.

Ngozi
Transliteration
Ngozi
Pronunciation
/ ənˈɡoʊ.zi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ngozi stands.

Ngozi 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.

Ngozis before her.

Real people
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
WTO Director-General.
born 1954
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigerian novelist.
born 1977
In fiction
Ngozi
Common in Nigerian fiction.

Names connected to Ngozi.

The number behind Ngozi.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ngozi reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.