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GirlEast African (Kikuyu, Luhya, Oromo, Ganda and others)

Njeri

Kikuyu for "one who travels".

Meaning and origin

Njeri belongs to the Agikuyu people of central Kenya, whose founding story tells of the ancestral pair Gikuyu and Mumbi and the daughters who went on to found the community's main clans; several tellings of that story…

How to pronounce Njeri

English (US)en-JEH-ree /ənˈdʒɛri/

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