Entry № 8069 · Swahili origin

Pendo Pendo — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PEN-doh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Swahili
Meaning
"Love"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "love".

Pendo means love — warm, giving affection. It is simple, deep and tender.

Love — a Swahili name.

The name in its native script.

Pendo
Transliteration
Pendo
Pronunciation
/ ˈpen.do /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pendo stands.

Pendo 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.

Pendos before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Pendo.

The number behind Pendo.

9

The Giver

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