Lesedi
given name · Zulu · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lesedi is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. In Botswana it is the 24th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Zulu and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Light.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 1.9K◐
- BWBotswana1 in 2.6K
- GYGuyana1 in 375K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4 ●
- Sources
- 51 ●
- 1 in 375K ◐
across 2 countries
5.6K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin●
Light.
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 | #140 | 18,114 | 5.3K rec. | — | 1.7K | Lesedi | 51 |
| US United States | — | 191 | 169 rec. | — | 5 | Lesedi | 47 |
| BW Botswana | #24 | 32 | 119 rec. | — | — | Lesedi | 23 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 29 | 21 rec. | — | listed | Lesedi | 23 |
| AU Australia | — | 23 | 22 rec. | — | — | Lesedi | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 11 | 5 rec. | — | listed | Lesedi | 4 |
| CA Canada | — | 9 | 8 rec. | — | 1 | Lesedi | 8 |
| DE Germany | — | 8 | 5 rec. | — | — | Lesedi | 5 |
| GY Guyana | — | 2 | 4 rec. | 1 in 375K | 2 | Lesedi | 2 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | — | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | — | 0 rec. | — | 3 | — | 2 |
| GD Grenada | — | — | 0 rec. | — | 1 | — | 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●
- Zulu11K56%
- English3.1K16%
- Afrikaans2.2K11%
- Swahili1.2K6%
- English (South Africa)6103%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Zulu | 11,005 | 56% |
| English | 3,150 | 16% |
| Afrikaans | 2,236 | 11% |
| Swahili | 1,208 | 6% |
| English (South Africa) | 610 | 3% |
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●
Lesedi 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 Southern Sotho, light (electromagnetic wave)
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 11 sources across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 21 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Lesedi?
- We estimate roughly 4 people bear Lesedi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Lesedi have the most bearers?
- Lesedi is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled lesedi.
- How common is Lesedi compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Lesedi is the 140th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
- Is Lesedi a male or female name?
- Lesedi 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.
- What does the name Lesedi mean?
- Recorded meaning: Light.
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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, “Lesedi” — the 140th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.