Tumaini is the Swahili word for "hope." A traditional East African feminine name, used widely in Kenya, Tanzania, and across the Swahili coast.
Used widely in East Africa.
Tumaini 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tumaini reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.