Katlego

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Katlego is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is the 80th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 1.4K◐
  • BWBotswana1 in 979
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 4.3M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2 ●

across 1 country

Sources
83 ●

26K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 19M ◐

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.

Where Katlego is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa#8024,02225K rec.——Katlego83
US United States—16390 rec.——Katlego26
BW Botswana#384413 rec.—listedKatlego22
GB United Kingdom—4833 rec.——Katlego20
AU Australia—2222 rec.——Katlego14
DE Germany—89 rec.——Katlego6
NL Netherlands—76 rec.——Katlego1
FR France—77 rec.——Katlego6
IN India—51 rec.——Katlego3
PL Poland—2—1 in 19M2——

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English13K48%
  • Swahili6K23%
  • Southern Sotho1.4K5%
  • English (South Africa)1.2K5%
  • Estonian5492%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English12,63548%
Swahili5,98223%
Southern Sotho1,4245%
English (South Africa)1,1915%
Estonian5492%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Katlego is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Norwegian given name66 records spelled Katlego4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa

    Languages: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish

    Also written Kätlegö

  • Azerbaijani given name54 records spelled Katlego3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa

    Languages: Azerbaijani, Turkish

    Also written Kåtlëgö

  • Russian given name40 records spelled Katlego6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Катлехо, Катлего

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence●

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Katlego
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#23,009
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20262#23,010
BW BotswanaMasakhaNER 2.0 — Zimbabwe (sna)———

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 · 3 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Katlego?
We estimate roughly 2 people bear Katlego (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
In which country does Katlego have the most bearers?
Katlego is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled katlego.
How common is Katlego compared with other names?
In South Africa, Katlego is the 80th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
Is Katlego a male or female name?
Katlego 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

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Katlego” — the 80th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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