Thandeka

given name · English · Latin script

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

Thandeka is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is the 90th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 1.5K◐
  • ZWZimbabwe1 in 35K
  • GYGuyana1 in 68K

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

≈22 ●

across 2 countries

Sources
67 ●

24K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 68K ◐

Guyana

Meaning & origin

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

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Thandeka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa#9022,72623K rec.——Thandeka66
US United States—423352 rec.——Thandeka67
GB United Kingdom—10267 rec.—listedThandeka28
AU Australia—4139 rec.——Thandeka13
ZW Zimbabwe—2413 rec.——Thandeka11
FR France—1614 rec.——Thandeka13
NL Netherlands—1311 rec.—listedThandeka3
PL Poland—11△1 rec.1 in 3.5M11Thandeka3
GY Guyana—11△5 rec.1 in 68K11Thandeka2
DE Germany—1010 rec.——Thandeka9
SZ Eswatini——11 rec.—2—6
BB Barbados——3 rec.—1—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●

  • English13K49%
  • Swahili6.2K24%
  • English (South Africa)2.5K9%
  • Southern Sotho8823%
  • Hindi6643%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English12,84849%
Swahili6,24524%
English (South Africa)2,4739%
Southern Sotho8823%
Hindi6643%

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●

Thandeka is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Zulu, to be likeable, lovable

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Xhosa, to be pleasant

    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●

1940196019802000Thandeka, b. 1946Thandeka Mbabama, b. 1956Thandeka Tshabalala, b. 1995

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 9 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Thandeka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—11#6,692
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202611#6,693
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 2025202511#583
SZ EswatiniEswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots20232#37
BB BarbadosBarbados — Electoral register (deceased + overseas slices)20251#36
GD GrenadaGrenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 202520251#132
GB United KingdomNISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present)2017——
NL NetherlandsBabynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020)———
GB United KingdomNISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present)2016——

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 · 9 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Thandeka?
We estimate roughly 22 people bear Thandeka (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
In which country does Thandeka have the most bearers?
Thandeka is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled thandeka.
How common is Thandeka compared with other names?
In South Africa, Thandeka is the 90th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
Is Thandeka a male or female name?
Thandeka is a female 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, “Thandeka” — the 90th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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