Tendai
Tendai is a girl name of Sotho origin, meaning Be thankful.
What Tendai means
Be thankful.
Tendai sits at 6 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Tendai comes from
Sotho names commonly describe the situation into which a child was born, or express thanks, and are transparent in meaning to any speaker.
Tendai is recorded as Sotho in origin. Browse other Sotho names.
How popular is Tendai?
In the girl name rankings we track, Tendai falls outside the top 100. That puts it in the broad middle ground where most names live: familiar to those who know it, uncommon enough to still feel like a choice.
The character of Tendai
Two ideas meet in Tendai: faith and Hope. Names carrying more than one theme tend to be the ones that suit a wider range of siblings.
Names like Tendai
These share Tendai's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Faith — Complete trust and devotion.
- Hope — Optimism; trust in the future.
- Themba — Trust and hope.
- Promise — A solemn vow.
- Grace — Grace, elegance, divine favor.
- Nadia — Hope.
- Talia — Dew of God; gentle rain.
- Theodora — Gift of God.
- Theodosia — Gift of God.
- Tikva — Hope.
- Trinity — The holy three.
- True — Genuine, loyal and real.