Mpho
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mpho is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is the 10th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Southern Sotho, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: gift.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 519◐
- BWBotswana1 in 806
- LSLesotho1 in 11K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈33 ●
- Sources
- 95 ●
- 1 in 375K ◐
across 5 countries
67K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin●
gift
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #10 | 65,350 | 66K rec. | — | — | Mpho | 95 |
| US United States | — | 611 | 454 rec. | — | — | Mpho | 57 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 181 | 145 rec. | — | — | Mpho | 33 |
| BW Botswana | #2 | 102 | 321 rec. | — | — | Mpho | 30 |
| AU Australia | — | 87 | 78 rec. | — | — | Mpho | 22 |
| LS Lesotho | #4 | 85 | 59 rec. | — | 13 | Mpho | 18 |
| FR France | — | 68 | 66 rec. | — | — | Mpho | 12 |
| DE Germany | — | 39 | 41 rec. | — | — | Mpho | 16 |
| CA Canada | — | 29 | 24 rec. | — | — | Mpho | 11 |
| IN India | — | 23 | 1 rec. | — | — | Mpho | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 19 | 13 rec. | — | — | Mpho | 5 |
| SE Sweden | — | 18△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 567K | 18 | — | 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●
- English33K46%
- Southern Sotho17K24%
- Swahili8.1K11%
- English (South Africa)4.5K6%
- Dutch1.6K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 32,907 | 46% |
| Southern Sotho | 16,985 | 24% |
| Swahili | 8,062 | 11% |
| English (South Africa) | 4,453 | 6% |
| Dutch | 1,607 | 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●
- Mpho Phalatseb. 1977ZASouth African medical doctor and politician
- Mpho Koahob. 1979CACanadian actor
- Mpho Sebinab. 1989BWBotswana musician
- Mpho NokoZASouth African actor
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 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 21 | #23,022 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 18 | #25,906 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #38,558 |
| LS Lesotho | Lesotho IEC 2022 National Assembly candidate lists | 2022 | 13 | #9 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 10 | #23,930 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 7 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #14,716 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #12,290 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #38,564 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #14,666 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 2 | #592 |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 1 | #28 |
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 · 12 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Mpho?
- We estimate roughly 33 people bear Mpho (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Mpho have the most bearers?
- Mpho is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled mpho.
- How common is Mpho compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Mpho is the 10th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
- Is Mpho a male or female name?
- Mpho 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 Mpho mean?
- Recorded meaning: gift
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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, “Mpho” — the 10th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.