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Wolof for "trustworthy" or "faithful", one of the most common women's given names across Senegal and the wider Wolof-speaking region.

The Wolof form of "Eve"/"Hawa", which symbolizes life, femininity, and motherhood, as it does across several West African cultures that share this Abrahamic-tradition name.

"No one wants (him/her)" — a protective name historically given to a child born after earlier siblings died, meant to make the child seem unwanted to the spirits believed to take infants. Chosen as a pen name by the Senegalese novelist Mariètou Mbaye Biléoma for exactly this traditional meaning.

An honorific meaning "mother" — used as a respectful term or name-prefix for women.

An honorific title for a woman of religious standing or a notable family — roughly "lady, madame". Naturalised into Wolof and wider Senegalese social life as its own title.

Tamazight for "star". Amazigh names are frequently ordinary nouns used directly as personal names, rather than a separate naming vocabulary.

From "alem" (the world) and "ayehu" (I have seen): in use, understood to mean "I have enjoyed life".

Amharic for "majesty, dignity, honour".

Fulfulde for "beloved", from the root "yiɗi" (to love) plus a suffix marking the human agent of the action.

Kikuyu for "the reincarnated one", traditionally given when a child is believed to carry the spirit of a deceased relative.

"The one who returns" — the male counterpart to Njoki, in the same reincarnation-naming tradition as the existing Kariuki: given when a child is believed to carry back a departed relative's spirit, often a grandfather's name passed to a grandson.

From Dholuo "luoch" (mist).

Maa for "the polite one".