Panashe
A name of African origin meaning "god is with us". In Poland fewer than 80 people carry it, split roughly evenly between women and men, so meeting one would stick in your memory.
Panashe Pronunciation
What Panashe means
Where Panashe comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Panashe comes from Shona, the language spoken across much of Zimbabwe. It means "God is with us," and Polish parents will meet it as bóg jest z nami. The name works for a girl or a boy. In Shona it reads as a small sentence rather than a single word, a statement of presence set over a child.
The site lists no diminutives and no variants for it. That fits its origin. Panashe travels as itself, without the Polish habit of Kasia, Basia, Zosia that softens older names into a dozen shapes.
On a class register in Wrocław, Panashe would sit among the Amelias and Antonis as something newer. Zimbabwean names like this one reached Poland through migration and mixed families, and they arrive with their meaning intact. A teacher reading the register says four syllables and, without knowing, says bóg jest z nami.
How many people are named Panashe
1 in 426924 men in Poland is named Panashe. 79 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4008 among male names.
Panashe as a middle name
Panashe is a first name for 79 men in Poland and a middle name for another 44, a 64/36 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1181st, between Nigel (44) and Pratap (44).
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#1179 Izajasz44
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#1180 Nigel44
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#1181 Panashe44
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#1182 Pratap44
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#1183 Raphaël44