Tafadzwa
An African name meaning "we are pleased". It's rare in Poland: fewer than a hundred people carry it, so most Poles will never meet one, and it splits across women and men alike.
Tafadzwa Pronunciation
Tafadzwa is pronounced tah-FAHDZ-vah (/taˈfad͡zva/).
What Tafadzwa means
Where Tafadzwa comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tafadzwa belongs to the Shona language of Zimbabwe, where names often form complete sentences. Here the sentence is short: we are pleased. The verb -fadza means to please or to make glad, and the prefix ta- marks the plural we, so the name reads as a statement rather than a label.
The name is given to girls and boys alike, with no separate diminutive or variant. In a Polish school register it would sit unchanged, four syllables, no Polish form to reach for. Its meaning stays plural. The pleasure it names belongs to more than one person.
Shona names of this kind respond to circumstance, and Tafadzwa answers with contentment. The short meaning holds across every use: we are pleased.
How many people are named Tafadzwa
1 in 313915 men in Poland is named Tafadzwa. 95 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3569 among male names.
Tafadzwa as a middle name
Tafadzwa is a first name for 95 men in Poland and a middle name for another 54, a 64/36 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1024th, between Szarbel (54) and Vincenzo (54).
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#1022 Nikos54
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#1023 Szarbel54
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#1024 Tafadzwa54
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#1025 Vincenzo54
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#1026 Yaakov54