Entry № 10612 · Shona origin

Tinashe Tinashe — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tee-NAH-sheh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Shona
Meaning
"God is with us"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Shona)

A name that means "god is with us".

Tinashe is the Shona phrase meaning "God is with us" — a unisex name reflecting Christian devotion in modern Zimbabwe.

God is with us. The Shona Immanuel.

The name in its native script.

Tinashe
Transliteration
Tinashe
Pronunciation
/ tɪˈnɑː.ʃɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tinashe stands.

Tinashe 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.

Tinashes before her.

Real people
Tinashe Kachingwe
American R&B singer.
born 1993
In fiction
Tinashe
Common in Zimbabwean fiction.

Names connected to Tinashe.

The number behind Tinashe.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tinashe reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.