Sibanda
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sibanda is a surname, most frequently recorded in Zimbabwe, where it is the 3rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and English (South Africa), written in the Latin script.
- ZWZimbabwe1 in 9◐
- ZASouth Africa1 in 2.4K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 65K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈244 ●
- Sources
- 105 ●
- 1 in 456K ◐
across 7 countries
16K 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.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZW Zimbabwe | #3 | 851,055 | 347 rec. | — | 284K | Sibanda | 59 |
| ZA South Africa | #180 | 12,423 | 12K rec. | — | — | Sibanda | 70 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,552 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Sibanda | 96 |
| AU Australia | — | 638 | 559 rec. | — | — | Sibanda | 49 |
| ZM Zambia | #540 | 404 | 27 rec. | — | 1 | Sibanda | 13 |
| CA Canada | — | 172 | 160 rec. | — | — | Sibanda | 37 |
| US United States | — | 138 | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 2.4M | 226 | Sibanda | 105 |
| PL Poland | — | 84△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 456K | 84 | Sibanda | 13 |
| DE Germany | — | 76 | 71 rec. | — | — | Sibanda | 24 |
| IE Ireland | — | 44 | 31 rec. | — | — | Sibanda | 14 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 34 | 14 rec. | — | — | Sibanda | 13 |
| IN India | — | 24 | 9 rec. | — | 5 | Sibanda | 7 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English862K99%
- English (South Africa)3K1%
- Swahili2.7K1%
- Welsh1.1K1%
- Sinhala7131%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 862,483 | 99% |
| English (South Africa) | 3,034 | 1% |
| Swahili | 2,742 | 1% |
| Welsh | 1,139 | 1% |
| Sinhala | 713 | 1% |
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●
Sibanda 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 nr, Lion totem; symbolises strength and fearlessness.
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●
- Ernest Sibandab. 1925Zimbabwean Latter Day Saint
- Mercedes Sibandab. 1966MZMozambican association football player
- Dizzy Deeb. 1985ZWnot in their usual nameZimbabwean reggae singer, songwriter, musical artist and record producer
- Ayanda Candice Sibandab. 2000ZWZimbabwe model and ctivist on albinism and girls’ rights,
- Precious SibandaGBPh.D. Victoria University of Manchester 1996
- Timothy SibandaNAresearcher
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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZW Zimbabwe | This page provides an overview of common surnames in Zimbabwe, published on surnam.es. | 2026 | 284K | #3 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | This page provides a list of the most common surnames in Zimbabwe. | 2023 | 282K | #3 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 226 | #88,273 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 138 | #124,548 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 84 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 84 | #34,050 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 62 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 62 | #43,368 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #41,009 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #15,933 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #112,348 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 20 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sibanda?
- We estimate roughly 244 people bear Sibanda (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sibanda have the most bearers?
- Sibanda is most frequently recorded in Zimbabwe, where it is most often spelled sibanda.
- How common is Sibanda compared with other names?
- In Zimbabwe, Sibanda is the 3rd most common surname of 8,027 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, “Sibanda” — the 3rd most common surname in Zimbabwe. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.