Nande
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Zulu: name of Chaka Zulu's mother; later barred from her husband's court
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nɑnd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nande is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 9.9M(measured from records)
- NANamibia≈1 in 2.8K
- UYUruguay1 in 25K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Namibia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Zulu: name of Chaka Zulu's mother; later barred from her husband's court.
Sources 1
- African Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nande counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Nande is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, vocative masculine singular of nandus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In men, Ndoglio-wili (ndogli wili)
as a wordMende Natural History Vocabulary
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Terna Nandeb. 1983USPlayer of American and Canadian football
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 138 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 136 | #50,053 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 134 | #23,408 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 119 | #24,299 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 119 | #24,252 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 42 | #9,161 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 9 | #42,352 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nande mean, and where does it come from?
- Zulu: name of Chaka Zulu's mother; later barred from her husband's court. Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Nande?
- A machine transcription gives /nɑnd/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Nande have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Nande in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nande.
- How common is the name Nande?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 138 people named Nande, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nandeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nande”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.