Entry № 11460 · Kikuyu origin

Wambui Wambui — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ wam-BOO-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Kikuyu
Meaning
"Singer / chanter (Wangari Maathai Nobel + Kikuyu heritage)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Kikuyu)

A name that means "singer / chanter (wangari maathai nobel + kikuyu heritage)".

Wambui is from the Kikuyu Wambũi — one of the nine daughters of Mumbi (the ancestral mother of all Kikuyu clans). Wambui Bahati — American actress and activist. Wambui Njoroge — modern Kenyan figure. Wangari Maathai (1940-2011) — full name Wangari Muta Maathai — though not exactly Wambui, was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize (2004); founded the Green Belt Movement (1977) — planted over 51 million trees in Kenya; her movement is to global environmental justice movements; her family naming tradition includes Wambui-family heritage.

Singer / chanter (Kikuyu).

The name in its native script.

Wambũi
Transliteration
Wambũi
Pronunciation
/ wɑːmˈbuː.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wambui stands.

Wambui 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.

Wambuis before her.

Real people
Wambui Otieno
Kenyan Mau Mau veteran + legal pioneer.
1936 – 2011
Wambui Bahati
American actress and activist.
modern
In fiction
Wambui
Daughter of Mumbi (Kikuyu ancestral mother).

Names connected to Wambui.

The number behind Wambui.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Wambui reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.