Palesa

given name · English · Latin script

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

Palesa is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. In Lesotho it is the 24th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Southern Sotho, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: flower.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 2.6K◐
  • BWBotswana1 in 16K
  • LSLesotho1 in 36K

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

≈14 ●

across 3 countries

Sources
74 ●

14K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 125K ◐

Guyana

Meaning & origin●

flower

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world●

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

Where Palesa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa#23413,22713K rec.——Palesa74
US United States—385316 rec.——Palesa55
GB United Kingdom—4540 rec.—listedPalesa21
IN India—4162 rec.——Palesa4
AU Australia—3838 rec.——Palesa14
LS Lesotho#242615 rec.—3Palesa7
NL Netherlands—129 rec.——Palesa2
GY Guyana—68 rec.1 in 125K6Palesa2
SE Sweden—60 rec.1 in 1.7M6—1
DE Germany—512 rec.——Palesa10
BW Botswana#246528 rec.——Palesa6
PL Poland—2—1 in 19M41——

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Languages●

  • English6.5K37%
  • Southern Sotho2.7K15%
  • English (South Africa)2K12%
  • Swahili1.7K9%
  • Japanese1.1K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English6,52437%
Southern Sotho2,68115%
English (South Africa)2,03512%
Swahili1,6679%
Japanese1,0686%

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●

Palesa 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.

  • In Catalan, feminine singular of palès

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

19801990Palesa Sekhonyana, b. 1986Palesa Mokubung, b. 1990Palesa Molefe, b. 1990Palesa Natasha Mothapo, b. 1990Palesa R Sekhejane, b. 1990

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 16 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Palesa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202641—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—41#57,523
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202640—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—40#58,036
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—16—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—10#49,689
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—10#50,444
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—6#44,095
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520256#588
LS LesothoLesotho IEC 2022 National Assembly candidate lists20223#18
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20262#11,628
DM DominicaDominica — Revised List of Electors May 202520251#159

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 · 18 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Palesa?
We estimate roughly 14 people bear Palesa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
In which country does Palesa have the most bearers?
Palesa is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled palesa.
How common is Palesa compared with other names?
In South Africa, Palesa is the 234th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
Is Palesa a male or female name?
Palesa 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 Palesa mean?
Recorded meaning: flower
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About this data

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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, “Palesa” — the 234th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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