Sipho
Sipho is a boy name of Zulu origin, meaning A gift.
What Sipho means
A gift.
Sipho sits at 5 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Sipho comes from
Zulu names frequently carry a message — of thanks, of circumstance, or of hope — and are understood as ordinary meaningful speech rather than a fixed inherited set.
Sipho is recorded as Zulu in origin. Browse other Zulu names.
How popular is Sipho?
Sipho sits outside the top 100 boy names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Sipho
Sipho sits in our Gift group. Following that theme is usually the fastest way to find the handful of other names that feel the way this one does.
Themes: Gift
Names like Sipho
These share Sipho's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Mateo — Gift of God.
- Mathias — Gift of God.
- Matthew — Gift of God.
- Nathaniel — Gift of God.
- Theo — Gift of God; divine.
- Theodore — Gift of God.
- Ayaan — Gift of God; speed.
- Mads — Gift of God.
- Matej — Gift of God.
- Mateus — Gift of God.
- Mathieu — Gift of God.
- Matias — Gift of God.