Magagula
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Magagula is a surname, most frequently recorded in South Africa. In Eswatini it is the 7th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 2.4K◐
- SZEswatini1 in 99
- TZTanzania1 in 114K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3 ●
- Sources
- 51 ●
- 1 in 13M ◐
across 1 country
12K 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.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #184 | 12,334 | 12K rec. | — | — | Magagula | 51 |
| US United States | — | 84 | 79 rec. | — | listed | Magagula | 19 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 76 | 40 rec. | — | — | Magagula | 7 |
| SZ Eswatini | #7 | 63 | 36 rec. | — | 74 | Magagula | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 47 | 42 rec. | — | — | Magagula | 19 |
| AU Australia | — | 19 | 19 rec. | — | — | Magagula | 11 |
| CA Canada | — | 6 | 9 rec. | — | — | Magagula | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 3 | — | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English7.1K48%
- Swahili3.4K23%
- English (South Africa)1.7K12%
- Southern Sotho3622%
- Hindi3262%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 7,115 | 48% |
| Swahili | 3,368 | 23% |
| English (South Africa) | 1,745 | 12% |
| Southern Sotho | 362 | 2% |
| Hindi | 326 | 2% |
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●
- Jonathan Magagulab. 1954SZSwazi boxer
- Nozipho Magagulab. 1994ZASouth African model, medical doctor, beauty queen and environmental activist
- Vuselelo MagagulaZASouth African politician
- Thokozile MagagulaSouth African politician
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 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SZ Eswatini | Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots | 2023 | 74 | #6 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #274,908 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
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 · 4 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Magagula?
- We estimate roughly 3 people bear Magagula (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Magagula have the most bearers?
- Magagula is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled magagula.
- How common is Magagula compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Magagula is the 184th most common surname of 302,267 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Magagula” — the 184th most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.