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Tadiwanashe

Gender
Boy
Say it
ta-dee-wa-NAH-sheh
UK rank, 2025
#5,065 for boys

Tadiwanashe is a boys' name, meaning “we are loved by the Lord”. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies).

What does Tadiwanashe mean?

Shona (Zimbabwe)

“we are loved by the Lord”

A Shona faith name ending in naShe, 'by the Lord'.

Is Tadiwanashe a girl's or a boy's name?

Tadiwanashe is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Tadiwanashe in the UK?

Rank in 2025
5,065th among boys
Babies in 2025
3 about 1 in 100,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 3 boys in the UK were named Tadiwanashe, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2005, with 8 boys.

2025 had more boys named Tadiwanashe than any year since 2018.

Half of all the boys named Tadiwanashe in the UK since 1996 were born between 2004 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2009, 46% of the babies named Tadiwanashe in the UK were girls.

Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.

2001Busiest: 8 in 20052025
Tadiwanashe in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20253#5,065
20240–
20230–
20220–
20210–
20200–
20190–
20183#4,959
20170–
20160–
20150–
20144#4,063
20134#4,008
20124#4,147
20114#3,986
20107#2,775
20097#2,679
20086#2,906
20078#2,337
20065#3,013
20058#2,090
20047#2,157
20036#2,283
20023#3,325
20015#2,326

Nicknames for Tadiwanashe

Names like Tadiwanashe

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Tadiwanashe: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tadiwanashe, updated 20 October 2026.