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I found a couple of younger people named Toughedah, including a South African researcher. It appears to be feminine. It seems to end in a "-geeda" sound as I saw someone refer to a Toughedah as Geeda. There seem to be several spellings of this name, the more popular being Tougeedah, as well as variations of both without the final "h". All the people with this name who had their location visible on social media were South African. Judging by some research papers I came across that were about the Muslim community in SA (they mentioned "Die boek van Tougeed" published in 1890) I'm guessing it's a mostly Muslim name. I have no leads on the name's origin, though.

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ETA There's also the spelling Taugeeda which leads me to make a huugeeee reach and guess that maybe it comes from Tauheed (Tawhid). I'm basing this entirely on the fact that there's a Cyrillic letter that used to be transcribed as either "h" or "g" and the fact that in Hebrew, which is a semitic language like Arabic, there's a deep gurgling "h" sound that could conceivably be represented as "g". I don't know but it's what my googling led me to.

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https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/109883

This message was edited 7/5/2020, 8:43 AM