Entry № 10398 · Other origin

Tatenda Tatenda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tah-TEN-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"We are thankful"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Shona)

A name that means "we are thankful".

Tatenda is from the Shona Tatenda — we are thankful, thank you. Tatenda is one of the Shona feminine + unisex names — central to traditional Shona Zimbabwean heritage. Shona feminine name reflecting Bantu African heritage.

We are thankful (Shona-Zimbabwean).

The name in its native script.

Tatenda
Transliteration
Tatenda
Pronunciation
/ tɑːˈtɛn.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tatenda stands.

Tatenda 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.

Tatendas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Tatenda
Shona we are thankful + Great Zimbabwe heritage.

Names connected to Tatenda.

The number behind Tatenda.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tatenda reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.