name
Kpanyinli
kpahn-YIN-lee
kpɑnˈjɪnliListen
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Syllable breakdown
Kpanyinli
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Nzema (Ghana/Côte d'Ivoire)
- Meaning
- a Nzema masculine name meaning the elder's child or son of the great one; composed of kpanyin, meaning elder or respected senior person, and li, a suffix indicating child or offspring; in Nzema social structure, elders hold ultimate authority in family and community decisions, and a name celebrating ancestry from an elder lineage confers automatic social prestige; such names are typically given to firstborn sons of lineage heads or to boys whose birth coincides with the death of a revered community elder, connecting the new life to the departing one
- Gender
- male
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