Pedi
Maserumule
Listed among Bapedi/Pedi family lineages in the Bapedi genealogy project; common Sepedi-area surname. Specific meaning not verified.
More Pedi surnames
PediThulareBapedi royal name of the Maroteng dynasty; Thulare was a powerful Pedi paramount whose reign marked the kingdom's height before the Mfecane.→PediMarotengName of the ruling Pedi dynasty/clan (the Marota), the royal house from which Pedi kingship descends; a branch of the Bakgatla.→PediMphahleleBapedi surname/clan of the Bakgaga ba Mphahlele in Limpopo; a recognised Pedi paramountcy. Borne by writer Es'kia Mphahlele.→PediPhaahlaBapedi surname of the Batau (lion-totem) cluster; Phaahla was one of the sons of Matlebjane in Batau genealogy.→PediPhashaSepedi/Northern Sotho surname and male given name, clan-linked among Bapedi; root commonly linked to a verb sense of pressing/striking (strength). Meaning of root flagged as interpretive.→PediMathabathaNorthern Sotho/Sepedi surname and clan name of Limpopo; commonly linked to 'thaba' (mountain), glossed by speakers as 'one of/steadfast like the mountains'. Listed among high-veld Sotho groups as Mathabathe. Etymology interpretive.→PediKgapholaBapedi surname of the Batau (lion totem), associated with the Batau ba Mphanama / Diphofa group; lion-totem clan.→PediNkadimengBapedi surname/clan; oral tradition holds it arose when an ancestor (Ramphelane) adopted Nkadimeng after his battles, founding the Nkadimeng clan. Specific gloss flagged.→
Surname origins and clan notes are indicative and culturally sourced — they can be contested and vary by family, lineage and region.