The Christening
Makeda
Makeda (pronounced ma-KÉ-da) is a girl name of Ge’ez / Amharic origin, used in Ethiopia. It means “The Ethiopian name of the Queen of Sheba.”
- Origin
- Ge’ez / Amharic
- Region
- Ethiopia
- Gender
- Girl
More names that mean “Figures historiques”
- Aksel — 7th-century Amazigh king (Kusayla); his name is associated with the leopard
- Béhanzin — The last great king of Abomey, who resisted colonial conquest (“the shark king”)
- Dihya — Amazigh warrior queen of the Aurès, 7th century
- Enitan — The one who carries a story
- Gaya — Numidian king, father of Massinissa
- Mansa — King, sovereign — the title borne by Mansa Musa
- Massinissa — First king of a unified Numidia, 2nd century BC
- Nzinga — Queen of Ndongo and Matamba, a figure of 17th-century resistance
- Pokou — Founding queen of the Baoulé people (18th century), heroine of the sacrifice at the Comoé river
- Rolihlahla — The one who pulls the branch — figuratively, the one who shakes up the established order. Nelson Mandela’s birth name
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