Dumisani
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dumisani is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is the 97th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Herald of the future.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 1.5K◐
- SZEswatini1 in 674
- ZWZimbabwe1 in 13K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈9 ●
- Sources
- 71 ●
- 1 in 4.3M ◐
across 1 country
23K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Meaning & origin●
Herald of the future
Sources 1
- The book of African names
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #97 | 21,964 | 22K rec. | — | — | Dumisani | 71 |
| US United States | — | 369 | 408 rec. | — | — | Dumisani | 57 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 185 | 145 rec. | — | — | Dumisani | 38 |
| ZM Zambia | — | 75 | 6 rec. | — | — | Dumisani | 11 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | #716 | 63 | 24 rec. | — | — | Dumisani | 18 |
| AU Australia | — | 49 | 47 rec. | — | 1 | Dumisani | 22 |
| CA Canada | — | 11 | 12 rec. | — | — | Dumisani | 8 |
| MW Malawi | — | 11 | 10 rec. | — | — | Dumisani | 10 |
| PL Poland | — | 9 | 0 rec. | 1 in 4.3M | 9 | Dumisani | 3 |
| SZ Eswatini | #52 | 9 | 6 rec. | — | 10 | Dumisani | 6 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | 6 | 6 rec. | — | — | Dumisani | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | 2 rec. | — | listed | — | 2 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English14K54%
- Swahili4K15%
- English (South Africa)3K11%
- Dutch7683%
- Southern Sotho6042%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 14,321 | 54% |
| Swahili | 4,026 | 15% |
| English (South Africa) | 2,993 | 11% |
| Dutch | 768 | 3% |
| Southern Sotho | 604 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Dumisani is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Herald of truth
as a nameThe book of African names
Herald
as a nameA Handbook of African Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name●
- Dumisani Maraireb. 1943ZWZimbabwean musician, master of mbira (1943–1999)
- Dumisani Dlaminib. 1963ZASouth African actor and dancer (born 1963)
- Dumisani Sitholeb. 1968ZASouth African politician
- Dumisani Matyeshanab. 1981ZASouth African rugby union footballer
- Dumisani Fannie MthenjaneZAmember of the National Assembly of South Africa
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SZ Eswatini | Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots | 2023 | 10 | #29 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 9 | #11,233 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #11,624 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2009 | 1 | — |
| NG Nigeria | A Handbook of African Names (Asante, 1976) | — | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
| SZ Eswatini | The page lists the top 100 traditional Eswatini names along with their meanings and cultural significance, provided by K | — | — | #12 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 8 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Dumisani?
- We estimate roughly 9 people bear Dumisani (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Dumisani have the most bearers?
- Dumisani is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled dumisani.
- How common is Dumisani compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Dumisani is the 97th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
- Is Dumisani a male or female name?
- Dumisani is a male 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.
- What does the name Dumisani mean?
- Recorded meaning: Herald of the future
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dumisani” — the 97th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.