Tlamelo
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tlamelo is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. It appears chiefly in English and Southern Sotho, written in the Latin script.
- BWBotswana1 in 6.3K◐
- ZASouth Africa1 in 52K
- USUnited States1 in 261M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- 820 ●
- Sources
- 17 ●
in 3 countries
771 records
Official registry-verified
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 | — | 657 | 692 rec. | — | Tlamelo | 17 |
| BW Botswana | #110 | 13 | 60 rec. | — | Tlamelo | 12 |
| US United States | — | 12 | 10 rec. | — | Tlamelo | 9 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English40048%
- Southern Sotho21526%
- Swahili587%
- English (South Africa)405%
- 243%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 400 | 48% |
| Southern Sotho | 215 | 26% |
| Swahili | 58 | 7% |
| English (South Africa) | 40 | 5% |
| 24 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Tlamelo Sonob. 1969BWBotswana badminton player
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 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tlamelo?
- Our records include 820 bearers of Tlamelo across 3 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Tlamelo have the most bearers?
- Tlamelo is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled tlamelo.
- How common is Tlamelo compared with other names?
- In Botswana, Tlamelo is the 110th most common given name of 293 given names recorded there.
- Is Tlamelo a male or female name?
- Tlamelo 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.
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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, “Tlamelo” — the 110th most common given name in Botswana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.