Lethabo
given name · Zulu · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lethabo is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is the 59th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Zulu and Afrikaans, written in the Latin script.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 1.2K◐
- PLPoland1 in 13M
- AUAustralia1 in 19M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3 ●
- Sources
- 42 ●
- 1 in 13M ◐
across 1 country
4.9K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
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 | #59 | 28,297 | 4.9K rec. | — | 2.8K | Lethabo | 42 |
| US United States | — | 47 | 25 rec. | — | — | Lethabo | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 6 | 1 rec. | — | listed | Lethabo | 4 |
| AU Australia | — | 6 | 6 rec. | — | — | Lethabo | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | 5 | 7 rec. | — | — | Lethabo | 2 |
| PL Poland | — | 3 | — | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | — | 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●
- Zulu21K70%
- Afrikaans3.2K11%
- English1.7K6%
- Southern Sotho1.6K5%
- Swahili8263%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Zulu | 20,689 | 70% |
| Afrikaans | 3,213 | 11% |
| English | 1,709 | 6% |
| Southern Sotho | 1,595 | 5% |
| Swahili | 826 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Focalisticb. 1996ZAnot in their usual nameSouth African rapper
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 5 sources across 4 countries.
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 · 11 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Lethabo?
- We estimate roughly 3 people bear Lethabo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Lethabo have the most bearers?
- Lethabo is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled lethabo.
- How common is Lethabo compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Lethabo is the 59th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
- Is Lethabo a male or female name?
- Lethabo 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.
Query this name via API
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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, “Lethabo” — the 59th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.