Ngozi
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ngozi is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is the 66th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: skin.
- NGNigeria1 in 957◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 146K
- USUnited States1 in 211K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.8K ●
- Sources
- 217 ●
- 1 in 44K ◐
across 6 countries
126K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin●
skin
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #66 | 76,141 | 113K rec. | — | listed | Ngozi | 128 |
| US United States | — | 1,580 | 8.1K rec. | 1 in 211K | 1.6K | Ngozi | 217 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,413 | 686 rec. | — | listed | Ngozi | 84 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 215 | 899 rec. | — | — | Ngozi | 17 |
| CA Canada | — | 198 | 195 rec. | — | 1 | Ngozi | 48 |
| AU Australia | — | 151 | 152 rec. | — | 1 | Ngozi | 25 |
| MT Malta | #16 | 151 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Ngozi | 2 |
| FR France | — | 144 | 164 rec. | — | — | Ngozi | 40 |
| DE Germany | — | 105 | 105 rec. | — | 1 | Ngozi | 37 |
| SE Sweden | — | 81△ | 10 rec. | 1 in 126K | 81 | — | 7 |
| IT Italy | — | 75 | 81 rec. | — | 1 | Ngozi | 20 |
| BR Brazil | — | 61 | 21 rec. | — | — | Ngozi | 10 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English76K54%
- Swahili49K35%
- Vietnamese6.3K5%
- French2.6K2%
- 9111%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 75,737 | 54% |
| Swahili | 48,904 | 35% |
| Vietnamese | 6,322 | 5% |
| French | 2,564 | 2% |
| 911 | 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●
Ngozi is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Blessing
as a nameThe book of African names
In Kinyarwanda, Ngozi (a city in Burundi)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ve, danger
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Burundi Republikā, 74200 iedzīvotāju (1990. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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 |
|---|---|
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1972 | 5 |
| 1973 | 6 |
| 1974 | 7 |
| 1975 | 8 |
| 1977 | 13 |
| 1978 | 8 |
| 1979 | 13 |
| 1980 | 13 |
| 1981 | 15 |
| 1982 | 13 |
| 1983 | 10 |
| 1984 | 14 |
| 1985 | 10 |
| 1986 | 10 |
| 1987 | 8 |
| 1988 | 8 |
| 1989 | 14 |
| 1990 | 12 |
| 1991 | 8 |
| 1992 | 14 |
| 1993 | 11 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1995 | 10 |
| 1996 | 16 |
| 1997 | 20 |
| 1998 | 16 |
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2000 | 12 |
| 2001 | 10 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2003 | 8 |
| 2004 | 9 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2006 | 9 |
| 2007 | 9 |
| 2008 | 5 |
| 2009 | 5 |
| 2010 | 8 |
| 2011 | 11 |
| 2012 | 9 |
| 2013 | 6 |
| 2014 | 10 |
| 2015 | 16 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2018 | 7 |
| 2019 | 9 |
| 2020 | 12 |
| 2021 | 14 |
| 2022 | 7 |
| 2023 | 7 |
| 2024 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 52 years between 1971–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iwealab. 1954NGdirector-General of the World Trade Organization
- Ngozi Ezeonub. 1965NGNigerian film actor
- Ngozi Onwurahb. 1966NGNigerian film director
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieb. 1977NGNigerian writer (born 1977)
- Ngozi Monub. 1981NGswimmer
- Ngozi Onwumereb. 1992USNigerian bobsledder
- Ngozi Okobib. 1993NGNigerian association football player
- Ngozi Igwebikeactress
- Titilope Gbemisola AkosaNGnot in their usual nameNigerian climate justice advocate, environmentalist, lawyer, gender and social inclusion expert
- Ngozi PaulCACanadian stage and screen actress, writer, director and producer
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 42 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #8,506 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 123 | #8,506 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 81 | #9,804 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 58 | #7,722 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 41 | #1,202 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #12,789 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 34 | #10,674 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 27 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 21 | #26,805 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 20 | #18,769 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 20 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 17 | #577 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 · 135 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ngozi?
- We estimate roughly 1.8 thousand people bear Ngozi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ngozi have the most bearers?
- Ngozi is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled ngozi.
- How common is Ngozi compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Ngozi is the 66th most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
- Is Ngozi a male or female name?
- Ngozi 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 Ngozi mean?
- Recorded meaning: skin
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ngozi” — the 66th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.