I asked another AI about the name Rafiki …
The name Rafiki comes from the Swahili language and means “friend” or “companion”. It is a gender-neutral name of African origin.
The etymology of the name Rafiki can be traced to the Arabic term رَفِيق or rafiq, which means ‘companion,’ or from رَفَقَ or rafaqa, which means ‘to be friendly’.
The name is widely known because of the character Rafiki in Disney’s The Lion King, a wise mandrill who acts as a shaman and the royal Mjuzi of the lion family. The first Kenyan movie to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018 was also named Rafiki.