Entry № 7621 · Zulu origin

Ntombi Ntombi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ N-TOHM-bee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Zulu
Meaning
"A young woman"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a young woman".

Ntombi means a girl, a young woman — youthful and full of promise. It carries freshness and grace.

A young woman — a Zulu name.

The name in its native script.

Ntombi
Transliteration
Ntombi
Pronunciation
/ nˈtom.bi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ntombi stands.

Ntombi 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.

Ntombis before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Ntombi.

The number behind Ntombi.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ntombi reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.