Lesego

given name · English · Latin script

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

Lesego is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. In Botswana it is the 10th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 1.9K◐
  • BWBotswana1 in 1.4K
  • AUAustralia1 in 2.8M

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

≈2 ●

across 1 country

Sources
71 ●

20K 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 Lesego is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa#14317,96419K rec.——Lesego71
US United States—246187 rec.——Lesego37
GB United Kingdom—7450 rec.——Lesego20
BW Botswana#1058270 rec.——Lesego25
AU Australia—4242 rec.——Lesego16
NL Netherlands—1510 rec.——Lesego5
DE Germany—1414 rec.——Lesego7
MY Malaysia—117 rec.——Lesego3
FR France—1011 rec.——Lesego9
CA Canada—88 rec.——Lesego3
ID Indonesia—66 rec.——Lesego1
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●

  • English9.8K46%
  • Swahili3.9K18%
  • English (South Africa)2.1K10%
  • Chinese1K5%
  • Southern Sotho4912%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English9,81246%
Swahili3,94018%
English (South Africa)2,14210%
Chinese1,0145%
Southern Sotho4912%

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◐

Lesego is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name60 records spelled Lesego4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Лесего

27 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 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Lesego
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20262#14,081

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 Lesego?
We estimate roughly 2 people bear Lesego (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
In which country does Lesego have the most bearers?
Lesego is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled lesego.
How common is Lesego compared with other names?
In South Africa, Lesego is the 143rd most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
Is Lesego a male or female name?
Lesego 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, “Lesego” — the 143rd most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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