Entry № 7925 · Sotho origin

Palesa Palesa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ pah-LEH-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sotho
Meaning
"Flower (Southern African heritage)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sotho)

A name that means "flower (southern african heritage)".

Palesa is from the Sesotho palesa (flower). Palesa Madisakwane — South African TV presenter. Palesa Setshogo — Motswana figure. Palesa Manaledi — South African artist. Princess Palesa — Southern African heritage naming.

Flower (Southern African heritage) — a Sotho name.

The name in its native script.

Palesa
Transliteration
Palesa
Pronunciation
/ pɑːˈlɛs.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Palesa stands.

Palesa 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.

Palesas before her.

Real people
Palesa Mokubung
South African Mantsho designer + H&M 2019.
born 1976
In fiction
Palesa
Sotho for flower.

Names connected to Palesa.

The number behind Palesa.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Palesa reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.