Kagiso
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kagiso is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. In Botswana it is the 4th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 2K◐
- BWBotswana1 in 991
- AUAustralia1 in 2.6M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- 19K ●
- Sources
- 68 ●
in 5 countries
18K records
Official registry-verified
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 | #156 | 16,741 | 17K rec. | — | — | Kagiso | 68 |
| US United States | — | 288 | 261 rec. | — | — | Kagiso | 41 |
| BW Botswana | #4 | 83 | 349 rec. | — | — | Kagiso | 23 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 47 | 45 rec. | — | — | Kagiso | 21 |
| AU Australia | — | 44 | 42 rec. | — | — | Kagiso | 21 |
| CA Canada | — | 14 | 18 rec. | — | — | Kagiso | 8 |
| FR France | — | 12 | 11 rec. | — | — | Kagiso | 12 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 7 | 3 rec. | — | — | Kagiso | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 6 | 3 rec. | — | — | Kagiso | 3 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 6 | 6 rec. | — | — | Kagiso | 1 |
| IN India | — | 6 | 1 rec. | — | — | Kagiso | 5 |
| CL Chile | — | 6 | 6 rec. | — | — | Kagiso | 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●
- English9K47%
- Swahili5.1K27%
- English (South Africa)1K5%
- Southern Sotho8504%
- Dutch4642%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 8,975 | 47% |
| Swahili | 5,063 | 27% |
| English (South Africa) | 1,000 | 5% |
| Southern Sotho | 850 | 4% |
| Dutch | 464 | 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●
Kagiso is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Tswana, peace (absence of conflict)
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●
- Kagiso Ledigab. 1978ZAactor and director
- Kagiso Rabadab. 1995ZASouth African cricketer
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 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #114 |
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 · 1 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kagiso?
- Our records include 18,850 bearers of Kagiso across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Kagiso have the most bearers?
- Kagiso is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled kagiso.
- How common is Kagiso compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Kagiso is the 156th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
- Is Kagiso a male or female name?
- Kagiso 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.
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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, “Kagiso” — the 156th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.