Naidoo
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Naidoo is a surname, most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is the 42nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and English (South Africa), written in the Latin script.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 937◐
- SGSingapore1 in 7.8K
- MYMalaysia1 in 8.9K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈29K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 231 ●
- 1 in 8.1K ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
281K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Naidu in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 19 more and Найду in RU Russia, FI Finland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
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 | #42 | 32,199 | 30K rec. | — | — | Naidoo | 69 |
| IN India | #618 | 27,276 | 212K rec. | 1 in 49K | 27K | Naidu | 209 |
| MY Malaysia | #535 | 6,179 | 8.5K rec. | — | — | Naidu | 71 |
| AU Australia | — | 5,496 | 5.4K rec. | — | — | Naidu | 131 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,908 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Naidu | 82 |
| US United States | — | 1,513 | 18K rec. | 1 in 220K | 2K | Naidu | 231 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,287 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Naidu | 66 |
| SG Singapore | #505 | 1,239 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Naidu | 61 |
| NZ New Zealand | #803 | 719 | 600 rec. | — | — | Naidu | 49 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #409 | 469 | 351 rec. | — | — | Naidu | 49 |
| DE Germany | — | 199 | 190 rec. | — | 1 | Naidu | 49 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 175 | 45 rec. | — | — | Naidu | 13 |
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Languages●
- English38K45%
- English (South Africa)14K16%
- Indonesian8.5K10%
- Swahili7.6K9%
- Dutch2K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 37,540 | 45% |
| English (South Africa) | 13,814 | 16% |
| Indonesian | 8,518 | 10% |
| Swahili | 7,557 | 9% |
| Dutch | 1,982 | 2% |
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●
Naidoo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Telugu/Tamil-origin South African Indian surname (from Naidu).
as a wordsanames.co.za — South African surnames
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●
- Sarojini Naidub. 1879INnot in their usual nameIndian poet, politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from1947 to 1949
- Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidub. 1887INnot in their usual nameIndian film director (1887-1941)
- Padmaja Naidub. 1900INnot in their usual nameIndian politician (1900–1975)
- Leela Naidub. 1940INnot in their usual nameIndian actress (1940–2009)
- Beverley Naidoob. 1943ZASouth Africa Author
- Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidub. 1949INnot in their usual nameVice President of India from 2017 to 2022
- Kumi Naidoob. 1965ZAhuman rights activist
- Xavier Naidoob. 1971DEGerman soul and R&B singer
- Ajay Naidub. 1972USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Meghna Naidub. 1978INnot in their usual nameIndian actress
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 24 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 600 | #39,536 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 464 | #45,959 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 302 | #62,046 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 55 | #570 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 30 | #64,072 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 30 | #62,916 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 25 | #31,192 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 24 | #38,658 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 14 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 14 | #111,364 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #40,356 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 27 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Naidoo?
- We estimate roughly 29 thousand people bear Naidoo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Naidoo have the most bearers?
- Naidoo is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled naidoo.
- How common is Naidoo compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Naidoo is the 42nd 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, “Naidoo” — the 42nd most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.