Ndeye is from the Wolof Ndeye — mother (foundational Senegalese honorific prefix). A modern American baby name in the broader Senegalese-Wolof heritage aesthetic. Ndeye is one of the foundational Senegalese feminine names — central to traditional Wolof honorific-naming tradition. The foundational Wolof Ndeye prefix is one of the foundational Senegalese feminine compound-naming family alongside Ndeye Fatou (Mother Fatima), Ndeye Khady (Mother Khadija), Ndeye Diarra (Mother Diarra), Ndeye Sokhna (Holy Mother) — central to foundational Senegalese Mouride-Tijaniyya Sufi naming heritage emphasizing maternal-feminine honor. Notable bearer: Ndèye Fatou Tine — foundational Senegalese gender researcher + Population Council figure; Ndèye Coumba Diop — foundational Senegalese politician + Member of National Assembly.
Featured throughout Senegalese heritage.
Ndeye does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ndeye reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.