Blessings
given name · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Blessings is a given name, most frequently recorded in Zambia, where it is the 50th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script.
- MWMalawi1 in 257◐
- ZMZambia1 in 458
- ZWZimbabwe1 in 20K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈14 ●
- Sources
- 38 ●
- 1 in 750K ◐
across 4 countries
1.2K records
Reference-verified
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Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZM Zambia | #50 | 4,644 | 102 rec. | — | 3 | Blessings | 18 |
| MW Malawi | #12 | 1,618 | 80 rec. | — | — | Blessings | 23 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 409 | 400 rec. | — | — | Blessings | 19 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 291 | 222 rec. | — | — | Blessings | 22 |
| KE Kenya | — | 267 | 221 rec. | — | — | Blessings | 11 |
| US United States | — | 60 | 51 rec. | — | 19 | Blessings | 38 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 51 | 8 rec. | — | — | Blessings | 16 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | #907 | 43 | 16 rec. | — | — | Blessings | 12 |
| CN China | — | 9 | 1 rec. | — | — | Blessings | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 7 | — | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | — |
| IN India | — | 7 | 3 rec. | — | — | Blessings | 6 |
| DK Denmark | — | 4 | — | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili7.4K79%
- English1.6K18%
- English (South Africa)291%
- French261%
- Spanish231%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 7,389 | 79% |
| English | 1,647 | 18% |
| English (South Africa) | 29 | 1% |
| French | 26 | 1% |
| Spanish | 23 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 8 |
| 2007 | 9 |
| 2009 | 7 |
| 2010 | 9 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2013 | 14 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 12 |
| 2017 | 12 |
| 2018 | 14 |
| 2019 | 24 |
| 2020 | 17 |
| 2021 | 19 |
| 2022 | 17 |
| 2023 | 18 |
| 2024 | 18 |
| 2025 | 19 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 18 years between 2000–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 9 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 12 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 26 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Blessings?
- We estimate roughly 14 people bear Blessings (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Blessings have the most bearers?
- Blessings is most frequently recorded in Zambia, where it is most often spelled blessings.
- How common is Blessings compared with other names?
- In Zambia, Blessings is the 50th most common given name of 8,241 given names recorded there.
- Is Blessings a male or female name?
- Blessings is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Blessings” — the 50th most common given name in Zambia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.