Kabelo
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kabelo is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. In Botswana it is the 8th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Southern Sotho, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Gift, beautiful share.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 2K◐
- BWBotswana1 in 1.2K
- LSLesotho1 in 85K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- 20K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 65 ●
in 5 countries
recorded for this name
18K records
Official registry-verified
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Gift, beautiful share.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #157 | 16,733 | 17K rec. | — | — | Kabelo | 65 |
| US United States | — | 202 | 159 rec. | — | — | Kabelo | 38 |
| BW Botswana | #8 | 71 | 194 rec. | — | — | Kabelo | 22 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 57 | 45 rec. | — | — | Kabelo | 17 |
| AU Australia | — | 18 | 18 rec. | — | — | Kabelo | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | 13 | 14 rec. | — | — | Kabelo | 4 |
| LS Lesotho | #99 | 11 | 12 rec. | — | 5 | Kabelo | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | 8 | 18 rec. | — | — | Kabelo | 5 |
| RU Russia | — | 7 | 7 rec. | — | — | Kabelo | 4 |
| DE Germany | — | 7 | 10 rec. | — | — | Kabelo | 7 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 6 | 8 rec. | — | listed | Kabelo | 2 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 6 | 7 rec. | — | — | Kabelo | 3 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English9.2K46%
- Southern Sotho2.7K14%
- Swahili2.7K13%
- English (South Africa)2K10%
- Dutch4922%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 9,180 | 46% |
| Southern Sotho | 2,720 | 14% |
| Swahili | 2,655 | 13% |
| English (South Africa) | 1,962 | 10% |
| Dutch | 492 | 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●
Kabelo 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.
In Tswana, Means 'share, portion, gift' in Setswana.
as a wordsanames.co.za — South African surnames
In Northern Sotho, part, portion
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
- Kabelo Kgosiangb. 1973BWMotswana footballer
- Kabelo Mabalaneb. 1976ZASouth African musician
- Kabelo Mmonob. 1980BWMotswana high jumper
- Kabelo Kgosiemangb. 1986BWMotswana athletics competitor
- Kabelo Dembeb. 1990BWMotswana footballer
- Kabelo Seakanyengb. 1993BWassociation football player
- Kabelo Dlaminib. 1996ZASouth African footballer
- Kabelo Sekhukhuneb. 1997ZAcricketer
- Kabelo Mokoenab. 2000ZASouth African rugby union player
- Kabelo Thaiactor
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 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LS Lesotho | Lesotho IEC 2022 National Assembly candidate lists | 2022 | 5 | #16 |
| NG Nigeria | The African Book of Names (Hodari, 2003) | — | — | — |
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 · 2 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kabelo?
- Our records include 19,998 bearers of Kabelo across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Kabelo have the most bearers?
- Kabelo is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled kabelo.
- How common is Kabelo compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Kabelo is the 157th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
- Is Kabelo a male or female name?
- Kabelo 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 Kabelo mean?
- Recorded meaning: Gift, beautiful share.
Query this name via API
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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, “Kabelo” — the 157th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.