Naledi
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Naledi is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. In Botswana it is the 98th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Zulu, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A star, eternal.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 4.8K◐
- BWBotswana1 in 5.9K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈32 ●
- Sources
- 61 ●
- 1 in 351K ◐
across 5 countries
4.3K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
A star, eternal.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
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 | #518 | 7,080 | 4K rec. | — | 1.8K | Naledi | 61 |
| US United States | — | 157 | 149 rec. | — | 10 | Naledi | 46 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 51 | 44 rec. | — | — | Naledi | 24 |
| AU Australia | — | 39 | 40 rec. | — | — | Naledi | 17 |
| DE Germany | — | 27 | 18 rec. | — | 1 | Naledi | 9 |
| BW Botswana | #98 | 14 | 43 rec. | — | — | Naledi | 14 |
| SE Sweden | — | 12 | — | 1 in 850K | 12 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 9△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 1.9M | 9 | Naledi | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | 8 | 8 rec. | — | — | Naledi | 6 |
| FI Finland | — | 5 | — | 1 in 1.1M | 25 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 5 | — | 1 in 7.7M | 5 | — | — |
| KE Kenya | — | 5 | 3 rec. | — | — | Naledi | 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●
- English2.6K27%
- Zulu1.8K18%
- Afrikaans1.8K18%
- English (South Africa)1.4K14%
- Swahili6236%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 2,642 | 27% |
| Zulu | 1,771 | 18% |
| Afrikaans | 1,771 | 18% |
| English (South Africa) | 1,421 | 14% |
| Swahili | 623 | 6% |
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●
Naledi 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.
In Northern Sotho, star (astronomical object)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2010 | 7 |
| 2015 | 5 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2019 | 11 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2022 | 7 |
| 2023 | 9 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2025 | 10 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 9 years between 2010–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Naledi Pandorb. 1953ZASouth African politician
- Naledi Nokukhanya Chirwab. 1993ZAmember of the National Assembly of South Africa
- Naledi MajolaZASouth African actress
- SlizerBWnot in their usual nameBotswana Musical artist
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 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | Stats SA — Recorded Live Births (P0305): top-10 baby forenames & surnames | 2023 | 1.8K | #9 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #22,305 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #20,945 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 12 | #32,753 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 10 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 9 | #23,928 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 9 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 7 | #27,277 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 6 | — |
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 · 27 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Naledi?
- We estimate roughly 32 people bear Naledi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Naledi have the most bearers?
- Naledi is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled naledi.
- How common is Naledi compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Naledi is the 518th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
- Is Naledi a male or female name?
- Naledi 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 Naledi mean?
- Recorded meaning: A star, eternal.
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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, “Naledi” — the 518th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.