Sifiso
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sifiso is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. In Eswatini it is the 4th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 1.7K◐
- SZEswatini1 in 173
- ZWZimbabwe1 in 70K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4 ●
- Sources
- 59 ●
- 1 in 9.6M ◐
across 1 country
21K 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #115 | 20,269 | 20K rec. | — | — | Sifiso | 59 |
| US United States | — | 163 | 139 rec. | — | — | Sifiso | 36 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 118 | 91 rec. | — | — | Sifiso | 32 |
| SZ Eswatini | #4 | 35 | 29 rec. | — | #24 | Sifiso | 8 |
| AU Australia | — | 35 | 34 rec. | — | — | Sifiso | 18 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | — | 12 | 8 rec. | — | — | Sifiso | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | 7 | 7 rec. | — | — | Sifiso | 4 |
| FR France | — | 5 | 5 rec. | — | — | Sifiso | 5 |
| DE Germany | — | 5 | 5 rec. | — | — | Sifiso | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 4 | — | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English12K49%
- Swahili4.2K17%
- English (South Africa)3.3K13%
- German7443%
- Dutch7433%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 12,111 | 49% |
| Swahili | 4,247 | 17% |
| English (South Africa) | 3,319 | 13% |
| German | 744 | 3% |
| Dutch | 743 | 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●
Sifiso 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 ss, wish, desire
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
- Sifiso Masinab. 1999ZASouth African canoeist
- Sifiso Mzobeb. 2000ZASouth African writer
- Sifiso Miyab. 2001ZASouth African triple jumper
- Sifiso MjoboZASouth African zoologist
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 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 4 | #22,172 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #25,750 |
| SZ Eswatini | The page lists the top 100 traditional Eswatini names along with their meanings and cultural significance, provided by K | — | — | #24 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 · 3 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sifiso?
- We estimate roughly 4 people bear Sifiso (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Sifiso have the most bearers?
- Sifiso is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled sifiso.
- How common is Sifiso compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Sifiso is the 115th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
- Is Sifiso a male or female name?
- Sifiso 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, “Sifiso” — the 115th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.