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 16968^th 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.
2. name of one of the two ruling generation-sets (mariika); the other is Maina.