Sekani
Meaning of Sekani
Sekani drifts across the ear like the faint ring of a temple bell on a Kyoto winter morning—silvery, brief, yet strangely enduring; born far from Japan, in the sun-laundered villages of Malawi where the Tumbuka tongue turns laughter into language, the name carries the meaning “to laugh” and, by gentle extension, “joy,” a gift offered to any child regardless of gender. In recent American records it has moved up the charts with the stealth of a koi threading moonlit water—five births in 2001, a pause, then a quiet surge to over two hundred new bearers in 2023—suggesting that modern parents, weary of names that posture, are letting this soft-spoken syllabic triptych do the smiling for them. Pronounced sih-KAH-nee, the sound begins crisp as first snow on bamboo and ends warm as embers, a balance of cool composure and hidden heat; and while no myths of empire or legend cling to it, the very absence of heavy precedent leaves the field wide and frost-clean for a child to etch an unrepeatable story—one quiet laugh at a time.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as sih-KAH-nee (/sɪˈkɑni/)
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