Entry № 7569 · Zulu origin

Nokwanda Nokwanda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ noh-KWAHN-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Zulu
Meaning
"One who increases"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "one who increases".

Nokwanda means one who grows and increases — a bringer of growth and plenty. It carries hope and abundance.

One who increases — a Zulu name.

The name in its native script.

Nokwanda
Transliteration
Nokwanda
Pronunciation
/ noˈkwan.da /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nokwanda stands.

Nokwanda 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.

Nokwandas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Nokwanda.

The number behind Nokwanda.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nokwanda reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.