Entry № 7337 · Other origin

Ndeye Ndeye — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ n-DAY /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Mother / honorific"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Wolof)

A name that means "mother / honorific".

Ndeye is from the Wolof Ndeye — mother. Ndeye is one of the Senegalese feminine names — central to traditional Wolof honorific-naming tradition.

Mother / honorific (Wolof Senegalese).

The name in its native script.

Ndeye
Transliteration
Ndeye
Pronunciation
/ n̩ˈdeɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ndeye stands.

Ndeye 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.

Ndeyes before her.

Real people

In fiction
Ndeye
Wolof mother honorific.

Names connected to Ndeye.

The number behind Ndeye.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ndeye reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.