Where does the name Pendo come from?

Pendo is a Bantu-Swahili name. It comes from Swahili's own Bantu (African) roots.

Is Pendo a girl's or a boy's name?

Pendo is usually given to girls.

Swahili name

means "Love"

Pendo is a Swahili name meaning "Love". It comes from Swahili's own Bantu (African) roots.

Pendo shares its root with upendo (love) and kupenda (to love), a short, sweet way to say love.

PEN-do

The part in capitals is stressed. In Swahili, every vowel is its own sound, and the stress usually falls on the second-to-last syllable.

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What does the name Pendo mean?: Pendo is a Swahili name meaning "Love". Pendo shares its root with upendo (love) and kupenda (to love), a short, sweet way to say love.
How do you pronounce Pendo?: Say it PEN-do. The part in capitals is stressed.
Where does the name Pendo come from?: Pendo is a Bantu-Swahili name. It comes from Swahili's own Bantu (African) roots.
Is Pendo a girl's or a boy's name?: Pendo is usually given to girls.

Bantu-Swahili: Swahili is a Bantu language, part of a large family of African languages. Bantu-Swahili names come from that original African core of the language.
Arabic-origin: Centuries of trade and contact along the East African coast brought many Arabic words and names into Swahili. They are now fully at home in Swahili-speaking families.
Borrowed (trade-route): Swahili also borrowed words from other languages its speakers met through trade across the Indian Ocean.