Entry № 7543 · Igbo origin

Nneka Nneka — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NEH-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Igbo
Meaning
"Mother is supreme"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Igbo)

A name that means "mother is supreme".

Nneka is an Igbo (Nigerian) name combining nne (mother) and ka (is supreme/greater) — meaning "mother is supreme." The name carries the Igbo proverb that maternal lineage holds the highest reverence.

Nneka Egbuna (born 1981), the Nigerian-German singer, is the most internationally known bearer.

Mother is supreme. The Igbo maternal reverence.

The name in its native script.

Nneka
Transliteration
Nneka
Pronunciation
/ ˈnɛ.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nneka stands.

Nneka 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.

Nnekas before her.

Real people
Nneka Egbuna
Nigerian-German singer.
born 1981
In fiction
Nneka
Heroine of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
1958 novel

Names connected to Nneka.

The number behind Nneka.

9

The Giver

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