Tumelo

given name · English · Latin script

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

Tumelo is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. In Botswana it is the 18th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Southern Sotho, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: faith.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 2K◐
  • BWBotswana1 in 2.3K
  • ZMZambia1 in 25K

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

≈12 ●

across 3 countries

Sources
73 ●

17K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 750K ◐

Guyana

Meaning & origin●

faith

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Tumelo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa#15516,75717K rec.——Tumelo73
US United States—158122 rec.——Tumelo39
ZM Zambia—8413 rec.—1Tumelo7
GB United Kingdom—3626 rec.—listedTumelo17
BW Botswana#183679 rec.——Tumelo18
FI Finland—300 rec.—15Tumelo1
AU Australia—2526 rec.——Tumelo12
LS Lesotho#312222 rec.—1Tumelo6
FR France—1110 rec.——Tumelo6
NL Netherlands—97 rec.——Tumelo3
SE Sweden—8△1 rec.1 in 1.3M8—1
DE Germany—55 rec.——Tumelo5

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

Languages●

  • English8.7K44%
  • Southern Sotho3.6K18%
  • Swahili2.8K14%
  • English (South Africa)1.9K10%
  • Dutch5273%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English8,68144%
Southern Sotho3,63118%
Swahili2,78514%
English (South Africa)1,92710%
Dutch5273%

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●

Tumelo 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.

  • Believe.

    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●

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 12 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Tumelo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#41,465
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#40,266
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—8#38,844
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#21,615
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20263#29,187
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520251#593
NA NamibiaECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates20251#28
LS LesothoLesotho IEC 2022 National Assembly candidate lists20221#20
ZM ZambiaECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results20211#44
EE EstoniaSiseministeerium — population register name list 20232023——
GB United KingdomNISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present)2007——
NG NigeriaThe 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 · 12 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tumelo?
We estimate roughly 12 people bear Tumelo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
In which country does Tumelo have the most bearers?
Tumelo is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled tumelo.
How common is Tumelo compared with other names?
In South Africa, Tumelo is the 155th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
Is Tumelo a male or female name?
Tumelo 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.
What does the name Tumelo mean?
Recorded meaning: faith
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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, “Tumelo” — the 155th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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