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Wairimu Wairimu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ wai-REE-moo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Kikuyu (Wangari Maathai Nobel Peace Prize)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Kikuyu)

A name that means "kikuyu (wangari maathai nobel peace prize)".

Wairimu is one of the Kikuyu feminine clan names — central to traditional Kikuyu cultural heritage. Kikuyu feminine clan name in modern Kenya.

Kikuyu founding ancestor daughter (Kenyan).

The name in its native script.

Wairimu
Transliteration
Wairimu
Pronunciation
/ waɪˈriː.muː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wairimu stands.

Wairimu 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.

Wairimus before her.

Real people
Wangari Wairimu Maathai
Nobel Peace Prize 2004 + Green Belt Movement.
1940 – 2011
In fiction
Wairimu
Kikuyu founding ancestor daughter.

Names connected to Wairimu.

The number behind Wairimu.

4

The Builder

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