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Wanjira Wanjira — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ wahn-JEE-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Traveler (Kikuyu Kenyan + Wanjira Mathai environmentalist)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Kikuyu)

A name that means "traveler (kikuyu kenyan + wanjira mathai environmentalist)".

Wanjira is from the Kikuyu (Gĩkũyũ) Wanjira — one who travels, daughter of the road — from njira (road, path). Wanjira is one of the Kikuyu feminine names — central to traditional Kikuyu Bantu Indigenous Kenyan heritage. Kikuyu feminine name reflecting Kikuyu clan-naming tradition where children are named after paternal grandparents.

Traveler (Kikuyu Kenyan).

The name in its native script.

Wanjira
Transliteration
Wanjira
Pronunciation
/ wɑːnˈdʒiː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wanjira stands.

Wanjira 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.

Wanjiras before her.

Real people
Wanjira Mathai
World Resources Institute Africa VP + Wangari Maathai's daughter.
born 1971
In fiction
Wanjira
Kikuyu traveler.

Names connected to Wanjira.

The number behind Wanjira.

4

The Builder

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