Entry № 2132 · Italian origin

Condoleezza Condoleezza — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kon-doh-LEE-zah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"With sweetness (Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern (Italian)

A name that means "with sweetness (condoleezza rice, us secretary of state)".

Condoleezza was coined by Angelena Rice for her daughter — from the Italian musical term con dolcezza ("with sweetness, with tenderness"). Condoleezza Rice (born 1954)the first Black woman to serve as US National Security Advisor (2001-2005) and as US Secretary of State (2005-2009) under George W. Bush. Provost of Stanford University at 38 (1993-1999), the youngest in the school's history. Concert pianist; performed with Yo-Yo Ma at the National Medal of Arts ceremony in 2002. PhD in Political Science from the University of Denver at age 26.

Author of No Higher Honor (2011) and Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom (2017).

With sweetness. First Black woman US Secretary of State; concert pianist with Yo-Yo Ma.

The name in its native script.

Condoleezza
Transliteration
Condoleezza
Pronunciation
/ ˌkɒn.dəˈliː.zə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Condoleezza stands.

Condoleezza does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Condoleezzas before her.

Real people
Condoleezza Rice
66th US Secretary of State.
born 1954
In fiction
Condoleezza
No Higher Honor.
2011

Names connected to Condoleezza.

The number behind Condoleezza.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Condoleezza reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.