Siyabonga

given name · English · Latin script

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

Siyabonga is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is the 44th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and English (South Africa), written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 1K◐
  • SZEswatini1 in 674
  • GAGabon1 in 68K

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

≈21 ●

across 3 countries

Sources
83 ●

32K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 619K ◐

Finland

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.

Where Siyabonga is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa#4433,68832K rec.——Siyabonga83
US United States—162125 rec.——Siyabonga34
GB United Kingdom—3528 rec.—listedSiyabonga21
AU Australia—2523 rec.——Siyabonga15
DE Germany—1414 rec.——Siyabonga9
FR France—1212 rec.——Siyabonga5
FI Finland—9△1 rec.1 in 619K20Siyabonga2
SZ Eswatini#51918 rec.—14Siyabonga10
KR South Korea—86 rec.——Siyabonga10
PL Poland—6—1 in 6.4M6——
SE Sweden—63 rec.1 in 1.7M6—2
NL Netherlands—54 rec.——Siyabonga2

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

Languages●

  • English21K53%
  • English (South Africa)4.7K12%
  • Swahili4.7K12%
  • Afrikaans2K5%
  • Dutch1K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English20,63253%
English (South Africa)4,70912%
Swahili4,68512%
Afrikaans2,0395%
Dutch1,0313%

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●

Siyabonga 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 Zulu, we are grateful

    as a nameKoopman, Adrian. Zulu Names (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2002)

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●

19401960198020002020Siyabonga Cwele, b. 1958Siyabonga Nomvethe, b. 1977Siyabonga Radebe, b. 1984Siyabonga Ngezana, b. 1997Siyabonga Mabena, b. 2007Siyabonga Tromp, b. 2010

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 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Siyabonga
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#29,641
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#40,792
SZ EswatiniEswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots202314#25
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—9—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—6#14,966
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—6#42,741
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20266#15,953
GB United KingdomNISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present)2023——
SZ EswatiniThe page lists the top 100 traditional Eswatini names along with their meanings and cultural significance, provided by K——#73

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 · 9 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Siyabonga?
We estimate roughly 21 people bear Siyabonga (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
In which country does Siyabonga have the most bearers?
Siyabonga is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled siyabonga.
How common is Siyabonga compared with other names?
In South Africa, Siyabonga is the 44th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
Is Siyabonga a male or female name?
Siyabonga 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

● 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, “Siyabonga” — the 44th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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