Nomsa
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nomsa is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is the 54th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Kindness is found.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 1.1K◐
- SZEswatini1 in 466
- BWBotswana1 in 12K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈9 ●
- Sources
- 61 ●
- 1 in 351K ◐
across 2 countries
31K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
Kindness is found
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #54 | 29,732 | 30K rec. | — | — | Nomsa | 61 |
| US United States | — | 359 | 326 rec. | — | — | Nomsa | 56 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 184 | 120 rec. | — | — | Nomsa | 31 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | #792 | 53 | 24 rec. | — | — | Nomsa | 15 |
| ZM Zambia | — | 43 | 12 rec. | — | — | Nomsa | 7 |
| AU Australia | — | 35 | 33 rec. | — | — | Nomsa | 18 |
| SZ Eswatini | #22 | 13 | 13 rec. | — | 13 | Nomsa | 8 |
| CA Canada | — | 13 | 13 rec. | — | — | Nomsa | 3 |
| FR France | — | 11 | 8 rec. | — | — | Nomsa | 12 |
| PL Poland | — | 8 | 0 rec. | 1 in 4.8M | 8 | Nomsa | 4 |
| BW Botswana | #191 | 7 | 65 rec. | — | — | Nomsa | 5 |
| DE Germany | — | 6 | 6 rec. | — | — | Nomsa | 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●
- English19K56%
- Swahili4.3K13%
- English (South Africa)2.1K6%
- Dutch9153%
- Southern Sotho8863%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 18,563 | 56% |
| Swahili | 4,320 | 13% |
| English (South Africa) | 2,064 | 6% |
| Dutch | 915 | 3% |
| Southern Sotho | 886 | 3% |
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●
Nomsa 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.
Mother of kindness.
as a nameThe African book of names
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●
- Nomsa Manakab. 1962ZASouth African dancer, choreographer and actress
- Nomsa Innocencia Tarabella-Marchesib. 1970ZASouth African politician
- Nomsa Josephina Kubhekab. 1970member of the National Assembly of South Africa
- Nomsa Buthelezib. 1982ZASouth African actress and television presenter
- Helene Nomsa BrathUSAmerican model and activist
- Nomsa MdlaloseSouth African folklorist, storyteller, writer, and cultural scholar
- Nomsa MtsweniZASouth African politician
- Nomsa Jenifer MlangaZWZimbabwean politician
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 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SZ Eswatini | Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots | 2023 | 13 | #26 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #8,341 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 8 | #8,342 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | #27,995 |
| NG Nigeria | The African Book of Names (Hodari, 2003) | — | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
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 · 6 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nomsa?
- We estimate roughly 9 people bear Nomsa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nomsa have the most bearers?
- Nomsa is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled nomsa.
- How common is Nomsa compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Nomsa is the 54th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
- Is Nomsa a male or female name?
- Nomsa 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 Nomsa mean?
- Recorded meaning: Kindness is found
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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, “Nomsa” — the 54th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.