Thabiso

given name · English · Latin script

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

Thabiso is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is the 43rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Southern Sotho, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 973◐
  • BWBotswana1 in 1.8K
  • LSLesotho1 in 15K

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

≈17 ●

across 5 countries

Sources
82 ●

36K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 351K ◐

Iceland

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Thabiso is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa#4334,84435K rec.——Thabiso82
US United States—280226 rec.——Thabiso40
AU Australia—7376 rec.——Thabiso16
LS Lesotho#66318 rec.—22Thabiso11
GB United Kingdom—6351 rec.——Thabiso26
BW Botswana#1346181 rec.——Thabiso13
ZW Zimbabwe—2320 rec.——Thabiso10
CA Canada—1316 rec.—1Thabiso9
FR France—1312 rec.——Thabiso11
DE Germany—107 rec.——Thabiso10
NL Netherlands—108 rec.——Thabiso3
PH Philippines—66 rec.——Thabiso4

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

Languages●

  • English21K52%
  • Southern Sotho5.1K13%
  • Swahili4.2K11%
  • English (South Africa)4K10%
  • German9542%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English20,97652%
Southern Sotho5,08713%
Swahili4,22611%
English (South Africa)3,95510%
German9542%

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◐

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

  • Russian given name81 records spelled Thabiso4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Табисо

27 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.

Evidence●

Attested in 11 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Thabiso
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—25#22,105
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—25#23,573
LS LesothoLesotho IEC 2022 National Assembly candidate lists202222#3
SZ EswatiniEswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots202313#26
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—5#45,921
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—5—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4#20,513
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20264#22,412
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20262#12,411
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520252#592
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)20261#32,522
CA CanadaAlberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender20211#2,059

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 · 12 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Thabiso?
We estimate roughly 17 people bear Thabiso (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Thabiso have the most bearers?
Thabiso is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled thabiso.
How common is Thabiso compared with other names?
In South Africa, Thabiso is the 43rd most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
Is Thabiso a male or female name?
Thabiso 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, “Thabiso” — the 43rd most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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