Entry № 7196 · Zulu origin

Nandi Nandi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NAHN-dee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Zulu
Meaning
"Sweet one"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "sweet one".

Nandi means sweet, of pleasant character — famously the name of the mother of Shaka Zulu. It carries warmth and strength.

It reads sweet and strong, a mothers name.

Sweet one — a Zulu name.

The name in its native script.

Nandi
Transliteration
Nandi
Pronunciation
/ ˈnan.di /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nandi stands.

Nandi 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.

Nandis before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Nandi.

The number behind Nandi.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nandi reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.