Sibusiso

given name · English · Latin script

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

Sibusiso is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is the 28th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Blessing.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 806◐
  • SZEswatini1 in 114
  • ZWZimbabwe1 in 31K

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

≈21 ●

across 3 countries

Sources
99 ●

43K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 928K ◐

Sweden

Meaning & origin●

Blessing

Sources 1

  • The book of African names

Where in the world●

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

Where Sibusiso is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa#2842,08542K rec.——Sibusiso99
US United States—259235 rec.——Sibusiso45
GB United Kingdom—115100 rec.——Sibusiso32
SZ Eswatini#15333 rec.—65Sibusiso14
AU Australia—3835 rec.——Sibusiso13
ZW Zimbabwe—2711 rec.—listedSibusiso15
DE Germany—2626 rec.——Sibusiso12
SE Sweden—11△1 rec.1 in 928K11—1
FR France—1012 rec.——Sibusiso9
CA Canada—99 rec.——Sibusiso6
MW Malawi—81 rec.——Sibusiso3
ZM Zambia—73 rec.——Sibusiso6

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English26K53%
  • Swahili7.5K15%
  • English (South Africa)6.7K13%
  • Dutch1.6K3%
  • Southern Sotho1.2K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English26,47353%
Swahili7,50515%
English (South Africa)6,67413%
Dutch1,5843%
Southern Sotho1,1672%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Sibusiso is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name38 records spelled Sibusiso4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa

    Also written Сибусисо

23 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Sibusiso Bengu, b. 1934Sibusiso Moyo, b. 1960Sibusiso Zuma, b. 1975Sibusiso Dlamini, b. 1980Sibusiso Matsenjwa, b. 1988Sibusiso Macdonald Kula, b. 1988Sibusiso Vilakazi, b. 1989Sibusiso Khumalo, b. 1989Sibusiso Mabiliso, b. 1999

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 10 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Sibusiso
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SZ EswatiniEswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots202365#2
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#39,454
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#40,694
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—11#33,436
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—6—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4#14,284
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20264#14,285
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20264#7,818
NG NigeriaThe African Book of Names (Hodari, 2003)———
ZW ZimbabweMasakhaNER 2.0 — Zimbabwe (sna)———
SZ EswatiniThe page lists the top 100 traditional Eswatini names along with their meanings and cultural significance, provided by K——#10

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 · 11 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sibusiso?
We estimate roughly 21 people bear Sibusiso (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
In which country does Sibusiso have the most bearers?
Sibusiso is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled sibusiso.
How common is Sibusiso compared with other names?
In South Africa, Sibusiso is the 28th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
Is Sibusiso a male or female name?
Sibusiso 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.
What does the name Sibusiso mean?
Recorded meaning: Blessing
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Sibusiso” — the 28th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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