Tebogo
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tebogo is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is the 26th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Gratitude.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 798◐
- BWBotswana1 in 1.1K
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈16 ●
- Sources
- 86 ●
- 1 in 750K ◐
across 4 countries
45K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin●
Gratitude
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #26 | 42,487 | 44K rec. | — | — | Tebogo | 86 |
| US United States | — | 322 | 293 rec. | — | — | Tebogo | 47 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 85 | 68 rec. | — | — | Tebogo | 28 |
| BW Botswana | #7 | 73 | 268 rec. | — | — | Tebogo | 24 |
| AU Australia | — | 51 | 49 rec. | — | — | Tebogo | 12 |
| DE Germany | — | 29 | 32 rec. | — | — | Tebogo | 16 |
| CA Canada | — | 12 | 17 rec. | — | — | Tebogo | 9 |
| FR France | — | 12 | 11 rec. | — | — | Tebogo | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 8 | 6 rec. | — | — | Tebogo | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | 7△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 796K | 20 | Tebogo | 2 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 7 | 6 rec. | — | — | Tebogo | 7 |
| IN India | — | 7 | 1 rec. | — | — | Tebogo | 3 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English24K48%
- Swahili8.8K18%
- English (South Africa)5.7K11%
- Dutch1.4K3%
- Southern Sotho1.2K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 24,043 | 48% |
| Swahili | 8,765 | 18% |
| English (South Africa) | 5,662 | 11% |
| Dutch | 1,418 | 3% |
| Southern Sotho | 1,237 | 2% |
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●
Tebogo 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.
We are grateful, gratitude.
as a nameThe African book of names
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●
- Tebogo Modisaneb. 1969BWMotswana badminton player
- Tebogo Ofentseb. 1973BWMotswana badminton player
- Tebogo Khalob. 1985ZAActress
- Tebogo Ndzingeb. 1993BWbadminton player
- Tebogo Josephine MokweleZAmember of the National Assembly of South Africa
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 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #31,395 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #29,954 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 7 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #44,273 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 3 | #28,986 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #36,657 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
| NG Nigeria | The African Book of Names (Hodari, 2003) | — | — | — |
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 · 8 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tebogo?
- We estimate roughly 16 people bear Tebogo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Tebogo have the most bearers?
- Tebogo is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled tebogo.
- How common is Tebogo compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Tebogo is the 26th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
- Is Tebogo a male or female name?
- Tebogo is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Tebogo mean?
- Recorded meaning: Gratitude
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tebogo” — the 26th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.