Ekene
From Igbo ekene, "greeting, thanks, gratitude".
Meaning and origin
Ekene takes the everyday Igbo word for a greeting or a thank-you and gives it directly as a name to either a boy or a girl, usually to mark gratitude around a birth.
How to pronounce Ekene
| Igbo (Nigeria) | eh-KEH-neh /ɛ̀kɛ́nɛ́/ |
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