Tinashe
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tinashe is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. In Zimbabwe it is the 83rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: God is with us.
- ZWZimbabwe1 in 771◐
- ZASouth Africa1 in 14K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 199K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈207 ●
- Sources
- 91 ●
- 1 in 598K ◐
across 4 countries
4.8K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Meaning & origin●
God is with us.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | — | 2,383 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Tinashe | 55 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | #83 | 1,093 | 458 rec. | — | #16 | Tinashe | 60 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,039 | 480 rec. | — | listed | Tinashe | 77 |
| AU Australia | — | 665 | 579 rec. | — | 1 | Tinashe | 68 |
| US United States | — | 127 | 735 rec. | 1 in 2.6M | 127 | Tinashe | 91 |
| CA Canada | — | 79 | 51 rec. | — | 1 | Tinashe | 25 |
| PL Poland | — | 64△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 598K | 64 | Tinashe | 7 |
| CN China | — | 60 | 13 rec. | — | — | Tinashe | 5 |
| ZM Zambia | — | 56 | 13 rec. | — | 1 | Tinashe | 8 |
| FI Finland | — | 50 | 0 rec. | — | 25 | Tinashe | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | 33 | 36 rec. | — | — | Tinashe | 17 |
| IN India | — | 26 | 11 rec. | — | — | Tinashe | 9 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English4.2K53%
- Swahili1.6K20%
- Polish3364%
- English (South Africa)3024%
- Hindi1622%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 4,172 | 53% |
| Swahili | 1,611 | 20% |
| Polish | 336 | 4% |
| English (South Africa) | 302 | 4% |
| Hindi | 162 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Tinashe Nengomashab. 1982ZWZimbabwean footballer
- Tinashe Panyangarab. 1985ZWZimbabwean cricketer
- Tinashe Ruswab. 1985ZWZimbabwean cricketer
- Tinashe Williamsonb. 1985NONorwegian model
- Tinashe Chimbambob. 1989ZWZimbabwean cricketer
- Tinashe Mhorab. 1991ZWZimbabwean cricketer (born 1991)
- Tinasheb. 1993USAmerican singer, actress, and dancer (born 1993)
- Ashley Millerb. 1998USnot in their usual nameUnited States athletics competitor
- Tinashe KajeseGBAmerican actress
- Tinashe MushakavanhuZWWriter from Zimbabwe
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 33 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tinashe?
- We estimate roughly 207 people bear Tinashe (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Tinashe have the most bearers?
- Tinashe is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled tinashe.
- How common is Tinashe compared with other names?
- In Zimbabwe, Tinashe is the 83rd most common given name of 3,651 given names recorded there.
- Is Tinashe a male or female name?
- Tinashe is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Tinashe mean?
- Recorded meaning: God is with us.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Tinashe” — the 83rd most common given name in Zimbabwe. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.