Ncube
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ncube is a surname, most frequently recorded in Zimbabwe, where it is the 2nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- ZWZimbabwe1 in 8◐
- ZASouth Africa1 in 1.1K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 73K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈233 ●
- Sources
- 129 ●
- 1 in 440K ◐
across 4 countries
31K 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZW Zimbabwe | #2 | 931,548 | 523 rec. | — | 311K | Ncube | 69 |
| ZA South Africa | #53 | 26,422 | 26K rec. | — | — | Ncube | 90 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,195 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Ncube | 100 |
| AU Australia | — | 784 | 690 rec. | — | — | Ncube | 68 |
| CA Canada | — | 213 | 183 rec. | — | — | Ncube | 47 |
| US United States | — | 142 | 1.3K rec. | 1 in 2.3M | 238 | Ncube | 129 |
| ZM Zambia | — | 138 | 17 rec. | — | — | Ncube | 17 |
| IE Ireland | — | 88 | 63 rec. | — | — | Ncube | 25 |
| PL Poland | — | 87△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 440K | 87 | Ncube | 10 |
| BW Botswana | #2 | 80 | 448 rec. | — | — | Ncube | 15 |
| DE Germany | — | 70 | 66 rec. | — | — | Ncube | 31 |
| FR France | — | 57 | 45 rec. | — | — | Ncube | 33 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English951K98%
- Swahili9.2K1%
- English (South Africa)1.3K1%
- Dutch1K1%
- Polish5751%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 950,869 | 98% |
| Swahili | 9,243 | 1% |
| English (South Africa) | 1,279 | 1% |
| Dutch | 1,006 | 1% |
| Polish | 575 | 1% |
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●
Ncube 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 nr, Monkey totem; associated with wisdom.
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●
- Pius Alick Mvundla Ncubeb. 1946ZWCatholic archbishop
- Monica Mary Ncubeb. 1949ZWZimbabwean Catholic nun
- Trevor Ncubeb. 1962ZWZimbabwean businessman
- Caroline Ncubeb. 1980ZWZimbabwean academic
- Milton Ncubeb. 1987ZWZimbabwean association football player
- Lancelot Ncubeb. 1996SESwedish actor
- Benson Ncuberesearcher
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 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZW Zimbabwe | This page provides an overview of common surnames in Zimbabwe, published on surnam.es. | 2026 | 311K | #2 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | This page provides a list of the most common surnames in Zimbabwe. | 2023 | 308K | #2 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 238 | #84,785 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 142 | #121,590 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 87 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 87 | #33,097 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 78 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 78 | #36,476 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #170,607 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| ZW Zimbabwe | MasakhaNER 2.0 — Zimbabwe (sna) | — | — | — |
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 Ncube?
- We estimate roughly 233 people bear Ncube (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ncube have the most bearers?
- Ncube is most frequently recorded in Zimbabwe, where it is most often spelled ncube.
- How common is Ncube compared with other names?
- In Zimbabwe, Ncube is the 2nd most common surname of 8,027 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, “Ncube” — the 2nd most common surname in Zimbabwe. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.