Chinelo
From Igbo chi, "God", and echiche, "thought": broadly, "God's thought."
Meaning and origin
Chinelo is an Igbo girl's name from south-eastern Nigeria built around chi, God, and the word for thought, so that it credits a child's arrival to God's own deliberate thinking rather than to chance.
How to pronounce Chinelo
| Igbo (Nigeria) | chi-NEH-loh /tʃinelo/ |
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