Entry № 11473 · Kikuyu origin

Wanjiku Wanjiku — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ wan-JEE-koo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Kikuyu
Meaning
"Daughter of the Kikuyu"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Kikuyu)

A name that means "daughter of the kikuyu".

Wanjiku is one of the names of the nine daughters of Mumbi, the legendary mother of the Kikuyu people of Kenya.

Wanjiku is widely used among the Kikuyu and in the Kenyan diaspora.

Daughter of the Kikuyu — a Kikuyu name.

The name in its native script.

Wanjiku
Transliteration
Wanjiku
Pronunciation
/ wɑːnˈdʒiː.kuː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wanjiku stands.

Wanjiku 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.

Wanjikus before her.

Real people

In fiction
Wanjiku
One of the nine Kikuyu mothers.
Kikuyu mythology

Names connected to Wanjiku.

The number behind Wanjiku.

8

The Visionary

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