Naledi is the Setswana and Sesotho word for "star." Homo naledi — the fossil hominin species discovered in 2013 in the Rising Star Cave in South Africa — is named for the cave.
Naledi is widely used across Southern Africa.
Naledi 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Naledi reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.