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Nkechi

From Igbo nke, "that which belongs to", and Chi, one's personal god: together, roughly "God's own."

Meaning and origin

Nkechi is a girl's name from the Igbo people of south-eastern Nigeria that casts a daughter as belonging to Chi, the personal guardian spirit at the centre of traditional Igbo belief and a concept Christian Igbo…

How to pronounce Nkechi

Igbo (Nigeria)en-KEH-chee /ŋkɛtʃi/

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