Ntombi
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ntombi is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Daughter.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 1.7K◐
- ZMZambia1 in 354K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 5.4M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- 22K ●
- Sources
- 45 ●
in 5 countries
22K records
Official registry-verified
Meaning & origin●
Daughter.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #116 | 20,141 | 22K rec. | — | — | Ntombi | 45 |
| US United States | — | 93 | 90 rec. | — | — | Ntombi | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 38 | 32 rec. | — | — | Ntombi | 15 |
| AU Australia | — | 15 | 15 rec. | — | — | Ntombi | 6 |
| ZM Zambia | — | 6 | 0 rec. | — | — | Ntombi | 5 |
| SZ Eswatini | — | — | 7 rec. | — | 3 | — | 6 |
| NG Nigeria | — | — | 0 rec. | — | listed | — | 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●
- English9.7K44%
- Swahili8.2K37%
- English (South Africa)1.2K5%
- Southern Sotho5042%
- Dutch3702%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 9,711 | 44% |
| Swahili | 8,174 | 37% |
| English (South Africa) | 1,193 | 5% |
| Southern Sotho | 504 | 2% |
| Dutch | 370 | 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●
- Ntombi Lentheng Mekgweb. 1964ZASouth African 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 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SZ Eswatini | Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots | 2023 | 3 | #36 |
| NG Nigeria | The African Book of Names (Hodari, 2003) | — | — | — |
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 · 2 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ntombi?
- Our records include 21,948 bearers of Ntombi across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Ntombi have the most bearers?
- Ntombi is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled ntombi.
- How common is Ntombi compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Ntombi is the 116th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
- Is Ntombi a male or female name?
- Ntombi 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 Ntombi mean?
- Recorded meaning: Daughter.
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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, “Ntombi” — the 116th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.