Ndeye
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- en-DAY
- US rank, 2025
- #6,837 for girls
Ndeye is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 6,837th for girls in the US (16 babies).
What does Ndeye mean?
Wolof, from Senegal and the Gambia
A Wolof name from Senegal and the Gambia, often paired with another name, as in Ndeye Fatou.
Is Ndeye a girl's or a boy's name?
Ndeye is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ndeye in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2022, with 6 girls.
Ndeye in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
How popular is Ndeye in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,837among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 16about 1 in 100,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 57% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 16 girls in the US were named Ndeye, making it the 6,837th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2003, with 31 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.
Half of all the girls named Ndeye in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Ndeye in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,837 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,612 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,955 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,338 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,142 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,480 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,027 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,725 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,877 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,808 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,347 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,094 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,085 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,824 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,373 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,216 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,763 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,317 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,786 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,798 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,579 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,569 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,548 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
Names like Ndeye
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ndeye: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ndeye, updated 20 October 2026.