Shikongo
surname · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Shikongo is a surname, most frequently recorded in Namibia, where it is the most common surname. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script.
- NANamibia1 in 91◐
- KEKenya1 in 477K
- ZASouth Africa1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- 546 ●
- Sources
- 22 ●
in 5 countries
966 records
Reference-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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NA Namibia | #1 | 349 | 895 rec. | — | 20K | Shikongo | 22 |
| KE Kenya | — | 80 | 12 rec. | — | — | Shikongo | 5 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 24 | 27 rec. | — | — | Shikongo | 7 |
| US United States | — | 18 | 14 rec. | — | — | Shikongo | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 12 | 4 rec. | — | — | Shikongo | 9 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili47180%
- English6611%
- 122%
- Portuguese71%
- Spanish61%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 471 | 80% |
| English | 66 | 11% |
| 12 | 2% | |
| Portuguese | 7 | 1% |
| Spanish | 6 | 1% |
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●
- Ananias Shikongob. 1986NAParalympian athlete from Namibia
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 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NA Namibia | This page provides an overview of Namibian surnames and their origins, published by the Namibia Statistics Agency. | 2026 | 20K | #2 |
| NA Namibia | This page lists the most common surnames in Namibia and their frequency. | 2023 | 20K | #2 |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 9 | #4 |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 9 | #7 |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 3 | #26 |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 1 | #23 |
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 Shikongo?
- Our records include 546 bearers of Shikongo across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Shikongo have the most bearers?
- Shikongo is most frequently recorded in Namibia, where it is most often spelled shikongo.
- How common is Shikongo compared with other names?
- In Namibia, Shikongo is the most common surname of 642 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Shikongo” — the most common surname in Namibia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.