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Tafadzwa Tafadzwa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tah-fah-DZWAH /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"We are pleased / made happy"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Shona)

A name that means "we are pleased / made happy".

Tafadzwa is from the Shona tafadzwa — we have been made happy, we are pleased. Tafadzwa is one of the Shona unisex names — central to traditional Zimbabwean Christian + Indigenous Bantu heritage emphasizing the concept of community joy + family blessing.

We are pleased (Shona).

The name in its native script.

Tafadzwa
Transliteration
Tafadzwa
Pronunciation
/ təfəˈdzwɑː /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Tafadzwa stands.

Tafadzwa 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.

Tafadzwas before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Tafadzwa
Shona we are pleased.

Names connected to Tafadzwa.

The number behind Tafadzwa.

1

The Leader

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