Ofentse

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ofentse is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. In Botswana it is the 36th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Afrikaans, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 3.9K◐
  • BWBotswana1 in 3.4K
  • AUAustralia1 in 6.8M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

9.9K ●

in 5 countries

Sources
63 ●

5.6K records

Official registry-verified

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ofentse is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa#4058,7965.5K rec.—1.8KOfentse63
US United States—5228 rec.——Ofentse15
BW Botswana#362480 rec.——Ofentse16
AU Australia—1716 rec.——Ofentse12
GB United Kingdom—127 rec.——Ofentse8

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English3.4K34%
  • Afrikaans1.8K18%
  • Zulu1.8K18%
  • Swahili1.1K11%
  • Southern Sotho4184%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English3,42234%
Afrikaans1,76518%
Zulu1,76518%
Swahili1,09411%
Southern Sotho4184%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ofentse is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name233 records spelled Ofentse4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, France, United States

    Languages: French, Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Oféntsé

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name●

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 2 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Ofentse
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ZA South AfricaStats SA — Recorded Live Births (P0305): top-10 baby forenames & surnames20211.8K#10

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 · 1 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ofentse?
Our records include 9,927 bearers of Ofentse across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Ofentse have the most bearers?
Ofentse is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled ofentse.
How common is Ofentse compared with other names?
In South Africa, Ofentse is the 405th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
Is Ofentse a male or female name?
Ofentse 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

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Ofentse” — the 405th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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