Submitted NameRevisions Save Gender Feminine Usage African American Edit Status Status [show contributorshide contributors] Added 3/10/2011 by anonymous Edited 9/6/2018 by LMS Meaning & History Means "hope" in Swahili. It is not used as a name in Africa but was part of the Afrocentric African American naming culture of the 70s that borrowed from various African words.
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