Sandile
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sandile is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is the 79th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and English (South Africa), written in the Latin script.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 1.4K◐
- SZEswatini1 in 209
- ZWZimbabwe1 in 94K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3 ●
- Sources
- 76 ●
- 1 in 13M ◐
across 1 country
25K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #79 | 24,285 | 25K rec. | — | — | Sandile | 76 |
| US United States | — | 150 | 123 rec. | — | — | Sandile | 29 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 66 | 65 rec. | — | — | Sandile | 25 |
| SZ Eswatini | #6 | 29 | 13 rec. | — | 46 | Sandile | 16 |
| AU Australia | — | 29 | 25 rec. | — | — | Sandile | 18 |
| FR France | — | 20 | 20 rec. | — | — | Sandile | 10 |
| DE Germany | — | 11 | 12 rec. | — | — | Sandile | 6 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | — | 9 | 9 rec. | — | — | Sandile | 6 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | 7 | 6 rec. | — | — | Sandile | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 6 | 2 rec. | — | — | Sandile | 2 |
| IN India | — | 5 | 45 rec. | — | — | Sandile | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | 5 | 2 rec. | — | — | Sandile | 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●
- English14K47%
- English (South Africa)4.7K16%
- Swahili3.9K13%
- French1.8K6%
- Dutch8223%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 14,254 | 47% |
| English (South Africa) | 4,738 | 16% |
| Swahili | 3,860 | 13% |
| French | 1,817 | 6% |
| Dutch | 822 | 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●
Sandile 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 Xhosa, Xhosa name documented to mean "we increased.".
as a wordsanames.co.za — South African surnames
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●
- Sandile Ndlovub. 1980ZAAssociation footballer
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 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SZ Eswatini | Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots | 2023 | 46 | #4 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #23,034 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #17,964 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 3 | #10,141 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 3 | #17,965 |
| SZ Eswatini | The page lists the top 100 traditional Eswatini names along with their meanings and cultural significance, provided by K | — | — | #18 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Sandile?
- We estimate roughly 3 people bear Sandile (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Sandile have the most bearers?
- Sandile is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled sandile.
- How common is Sandile compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Sandile is the 79th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
- Is Sandile a male or female name?
- Sandile 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
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, “Sandile” — the 79th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.