Entry № 7815 · Xhosa origin

Onwaba Onwaba — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ohn-WAH-bah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Xhosa
Meaning
"Contentment"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "contentment".

Onwaba means contentment and happiness — a settled, peaceful gladness. It carries calm and warmth.

Contentment — a Xhosa name.

The name in its native script.

Onwaba
Transliteration
Onwaba
Pronunciation
/ onˈwa.ɓa /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Onwaba stands.

Onwaba 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.

Onwabas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Onwaba.

The number behind Onwaba.

2

The Peacemaker

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