Tariro
Its meaning is "hope", an African name with no Polish etymology on record. Fewer than 40 people in Poland carry it, nearly all of them women, so most Poles have never met one.
Tariro Pronunciation
Tariro is pronounced tah-REE-ro (/taˈrirɔ/).
What Tariro means
Where Tariro comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tariro comes from Shona, the Bantu language spoken by most people in Zimbabwe. The word means hope. It belongs to a family of Shona names drawn from everyday speech, where a name can double as a plain word you might use in conversation.
In Shona, one of Zimbabwe's official languages, Tariro sits near ideas of expectation and looking ahead, the sense of waiting for something good. That reading stays close to the short meaning given here, hope. Shona uses the Latin alphabet, so the spelling holds without change in Polish.
There is no diminutive, no variant, no cross-gender pair. On a Polish class register, Tariro would stand alone, with no name day beside it. The name arrives as one word, and that word means hope.
How many people are named Tariro
1 in 727220 women in Poland is named Tariro. 35 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6792 among female names.
Tariro as a middle name
Tariro is a first name for 35 women in Poland and a middle name for another 36, a 49/51 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1172nd, between Sylvie (36) and Yulieth (36).
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#1170 Serena36
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#1171 Sylvie36
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#1172 Tariro36
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#1173 Yulieth36
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#1174 Anzelma35