Refilwe
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Refilwe is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. In Botswana it is the 25th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 2.4K◐
- BWBotswana1 in 2.6K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 8M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- 17K ●
- Sources
- 60 ●
in 5 countries
15K 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.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #213 | 14,402 | 15K rec. | — | Refilwe | 60 |
| US United States | — | 126 | 99 rec. | — | Refilwe | 31 |
| BW Botswana | #25 | 32 | 220 rec. | — | Refilwe | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 26 | 18 rec. | — | Refilwe | 15 |
| AU Australia | — | 13 | 15 rec. | — | Refilwe | 10 |
| DE Germany | — | 6 | 6 rec. | — | Refilwe | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 5 | 4 rec. | — | Refilwe | 2 |
| FR France | — | 5 | 5 rec. | — | Refilwe | 5 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English10K60%
- Swahili2.4K14%
- English (South Africa)1.5K9%
- Dutch3802%
- French2722%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 10,047 | 60% |
| Swahili | 2,399 | 14% |
| English (South Africa) | 1,536 | 9% |
| Dutch | 380 | 2% |
| French | 272 | 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●
- Refilwe Mashigob. 1947ZASouth African politician
- Refilwe Mtswenib. 1973ZASouth African politician, 5th Premier of Mpumalanga Province
- Refilwe Modiselleb. 1986ZASouth African model
- Refilwe Molongwanab. 1994ZASouth African amateur wrestler
- Refilwe Tholakeleb. 1996BWMotswana footballer
- Refilwe LedwabaZASouth African aviator
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 1 sources across 0 countries.
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.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Refilwe?
- Our records include 16,743 bearers of Refilwe across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Refilwe have the most bearers?
- Refilwe is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled refilwe.
- How common is Refilwe compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Refilwe is the 213th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
- Is Refilwe a male or female name?
- Refilwe 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.
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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, “Refilwe” — the 213th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.