Nkosinathi
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nkosinathi is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is the 62nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 1.2K◐
- SZEswatini1 in 303
- ZWZimbabwe1 in 120K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3 ●
- Sources
- 64 ●
- 1 in 750K ◐
across 2 countries
28K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
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 | #62 | 28,107 | 28K rec. | — | — | Nkosinathi | 64 |
| US United States | — | 111 | 92 rec. | — | — | Nkosinathi | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 51 | 46 rec. | — | — | Nkosinathi | 19 |
| SZ Eswatini | #10 | 20 | 18 rec. | — | 36 | Nkosinathi | 15 |
| AU Australia | — | 17 | 15 rec. | — | — | Nkosinathi | 8 |
| DE Germany | — | 13 | 13 rec. | — | — | Nkosinathi | 4 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | — | 7 | 3 rec. | — | — | Nkosinathi | 7 |
| FR France | — | 6 | 6 rec. | — | — | Nkosinathi | 2 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | — | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | 0 rec. | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English17K52%
- Swahili4.7K14%
- English (South Africa)4.5K13%
- Dutch9313%
- Southern Sotho7932%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 17,343 | 52% |
| Swahili | 4,700 | 14% |
| English (South Africa) | 4,473 | 13% |
| Dutch | 931 | 3% |
| Southern Sotho | 793 | 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●
- Black Coffeeb. 1976ZAnot in their usual nameSouth African DJ and record producer
- Nkosinathi Sibisib. 1995ZASouth African soccer player
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 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SZ Eswatini | Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots | 2023 | 36 | #8 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #14,935 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
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 · 3 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nkosinathi?
- We estimate roughly 3 people bear Nkosinathi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nkosinathi have the most bearers?
- Nkosinathi is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled nkosinathi.
- How common is Nkosinathi compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Nkosinathi is the 62nd most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
- Is Nkosinathi a male or female name?
- Nkosinathi is a male 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.
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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, “Nkosinathi” — the 62nd most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.