Bongiwe
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bongiwe is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is the 84th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 1.4K◐
- SZEswatini1 in 505
- ZWZimbabwe1 in 141K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2 ●
- Sources
- 63 ●
- 1 in 19M ◐
across 1 country
24K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #84 | 23,486 | 24K rec. | — | — | Bongiwe | 63 |
| US United States | — | 109 | 92 rec. | — | — | Bongiwe | 33 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 51 | 36 rec. | — | — | Bongiwe | 21 |
| AU Australia | — | 15 | 15 rec. | — | — | Bongiwe | 11 |
| SZ Eswatini | #29 | 12 | 31 rec. | — | 9 | Bongiwe | 15 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | — | 6 | 2 rec. | — | — | Bongiwe | 7 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | — | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English15K58%
- Swahili3K11%
- English (South Africa)2.3K9%
- Japanese7553%
- Indonesian6693%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 15,480 | 58% |
| Swahili | 3,039 | 11% |
| English (South Africa) | 2,305 | 9% |
| Japanese | 755 | 3% |
| Indonesian | 669 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SZ Eswatini | Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots | 2023 | 9 | #30 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #8,874 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2015 | 1 | #17,254 |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 3 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Bongiwe?
- We estimate roughly 2 people bear Bongiwe (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Bongiwe have the most bearers?
- Bongiwe is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled bongiwe.
- How common is Bongiwe compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Bongiwe is the 84th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
- Is Bongiwe a male or female name?
- Bongiwe is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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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, “Bongiwe” — the 84th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.