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单词 Mwangi
释义

Mwangi

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Kikuyu Mwangi. This is the third most common surname in Kenya.

Proper noun

Mwangi (plural Mwangis)

  1. A surname from Kikuyu.

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Mwangi is the 16968th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1675 individuals. Mwangi is most common among Black/African American (94.63%) individuals.

Further reading

  • Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), Mwangi”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 641.

Anagrams

  • wigman

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mwàᵑɡǐ/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.

Proper noun

Mwangi

  1. a male given name.[1]
  2. name of one of the two ruling generation-sets (mariika); the other is Maina.[1]

References

  1. Mwangi” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 13. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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