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Nomthandazo Nomthandazo — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ nohm-tahn-DAH-zoh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Mother of prayer"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Zulu)

A name that means "mother of prayer".

Nomthandazo is from the South African Zulu / Xhosa nomthandazo — no- (mother of, with) + umthandazo (prayer) — mother of prayer. Nomthandazo is one of the South African Zulu + Xhosa feminine names — central to traditional Nguni naming heritage.

Mother of prayer (Zulu-Xhosa).

The name in its native script.

Nomthandazo
Transliteration
Nomthandazo
Pronunciation
/ ˌnoʊm.tɑːnˈdɑː.zoʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nomthandazo stands.

Nomthandazo 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.

Nomthandazos before her.

Real people

In fiction
Nomthandazo
Zulu mother of prayer.

Names connected to Nomthandazo.

The number behind Nomthandazo.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nomthandazo reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.