Lindiwe

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Lindiwe is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is the 29th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and English (South Africa), written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: We have waited for joy.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 817◐
  • SZEswatini1 in 404
  • MZMozambique1 in 19K

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

≈36 ●

across 5 countries

Sources
72 ●

43K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 750K ◐

Guyana

Meaning & origin●

We have waited for joy

Sources 1

  • The book of African names

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Lindiwe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa#2941,49742K rec.——Lindiwe71
US United States—592565 rec.—6Lindiwe72
GB United Kingdom—189138 rec.——Lindiwe32
AU Australia—4645 rec.——Lindiwe17
ZW Zimbabwe—3013 rec.——Lindiwe14
DE Germany—1914 rec.—listedLindiwe14
SZ Eswatini#15158 rec.—11Lindiwe12
NG Nigeria—1515 rec.—listedLindiwe6
ZM Zambia—151 rec.——Lindiwe6
FR France—1515 rec.——Lindiwe14
NL Netherlands—14△2 rec.1 in 1.2M14Lindiwe3
BR Brazil—145 rec.——Lindiwe10

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

Languages●

  • English29K58%
  • English (South Africa)6.6K13%
  • Swahili5.8K12%
  • Southern Sotho1.2K2%
  • Dutch1K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English28,64558%
English (South Africa)6,63013%
Swahili5,76012%
Southern Sotho1,1762%
Dutch1,0172%

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●

Lindiwe is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Xhosa, Xhosa: "have waited."

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • In Zulu, Zulu: Lindiwe name

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • have waited.

    as a nameAfrican Names

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.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Lindiwe Maseko, b. 1958Lindiwe Mjobo, b. 1971Lindiwe Magwede, b. 1991

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 14 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Lindiwe
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#36,327
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#37,678
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—14#18,281
SZ EswatiniEswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots202311#28
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—9#37,992
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—7#35,090
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—6#10,098
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20266#10,099
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19736—
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—6—
LS LesothoLesotho IEC 2022 National Assembly candidate lists20222#19
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520251#593

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 · 14 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lindiwe?
We estimate roughly 36 people bear Lindiwe (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Lindiwe have the most bearers?
Lindiwe is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled lindiwe.
How common is Lindiwe compared with other names?
In South Africa, Lindiwe is the 29th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
Is Lindiwe a male or female name?
Lindiwe is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Lindiwe mean?
Recorded meaning: We have waited for joy
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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, “Lindiwe” — the 29th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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