Entry № 10826 · Swahili origin

Tunu Tunu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Swahili
Meaning
"A precious gift"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a precious gift".

Tunu is a name of Swahili origin, meaning a precious gift.

A precious gift — a Swahili name.

The name in its native script.

Tunu
Transliteration
Tunu
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Tunu stands.

Tunu 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.

Tunus before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Tunu.

The number behind Tunu.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tunu reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.