Karabo
given name · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Karabo is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is the 100th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 1.6K◐
- BWBotswana1 in 1.1K
- LSLesotho1 in 156K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈14 ●
- Sources
- 80 ●
- 1 in 351K ◐
across 4 countries
24K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #100 | 21,733 | 23K rec. | — | — | Karabo | 80 |
| US United States | — | 234 | 157 rec. | — | — | Karabo | 32 |
| BW Botswana | #6 | 74 | 318 rec. | — | — | Karabo | 21 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 68 | 67 rec. | — | listed | Karabo | 23 |
| AU Australia | — | 32 | 30 rec. | — | — | Karabo | 14 |
| FR France | — | 18 | 35 rec. | — | — | Karabo | 12 |
| DE Germany | — | 12 | 17 rec. | — | 1 | Karabo | 12 |
| IN India | — | 10 | 4 rec. | — | — | Karabo | 4 |
| CA Canada | — | 8 | 11 rec. | — | — | Karabo | 10 |
| LS Lesotho | #275 | 6 | 10 rec. | — | 4 | Karabo | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 6△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 1.7M | 6 | — | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 6 | 7 rec. | — | — | Karabo | 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●
- Swahili8.5K35%
- English8.4K34%
- Chinese1.3K5%
- English (South Africa)9934%
- Southern Sotho8784%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 8,506 | 35% |
| English | 8,384 | 34% |
| Chinese | 1,257 | 5% |
| English (South Africa) | 993 | 4% |
| Southern Sotho | 878 | 4% |
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●
Karabo 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 io, ground beetle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Northern Sotho, response
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.
Evidence●
Attested in 10 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #46,830 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #47,811 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #42,712 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 5 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 4 | #72,790 |
| LS Lesotho | Lesotho IEC 2022 National Assembly candidate lists | 2022 | 4 | #17 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #22,940 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #22,941 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | #23,980 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2025 | 1 | #2 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2015 | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 11 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Karabo?
- We estimate roughly 14 people bear Karabo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Karabo have the most bearers?
- Karabo is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled karabo.
- How common is Karabo compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Karabo is the 100th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
- Is Karabo a male or female name?
- Karabo 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, “Karabo” — the 100th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.