Vusi
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vusi is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is the 73rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: One who restores the.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 1.3K◐
- SZEswatini1 in 276
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 4.8M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- 29K ●
- Sources
- 74 ●
in 5 countries
27K records
Official registry-verified
Meaning & origin●
One who restores the
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #73 | 25,949 | 27K rec. | — | — | Vusi | 74 |
| US United States | — | 80 | 66 rec. | — | — | Vusi | 17 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 43 | 31 rec. | — | — | Vusi | 19 |
| SZ Eswatini | #9 | 22 | 6 rec. | — | 35 | Vusi | 8 |
| AU Australia | — | 20 | 19 rec. | — | — | Vusi | 12 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 10 | 1 rec. | — | — | Vusi | 8 |
| IN India | — | 8 | 3 rec. | — | 7 | Vusi | 4 |
| FR France | — | 6 | 8 rec. | — | — | Vusi | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | 6 | 8 rec. | — | — | Vusi | 4 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 5 | 6 rec. | — | listed | Vusi | 6 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English15K50%
- Swahili5.3K18%
- English (South Africa)2.2K8%
- Hindi8313%
- Indonesian8043%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 14,728 | 50% |
| Swahili | 5,304 | 18% |
| English (South Africa) | 2,218 | 8% |
| Hindi | 831 | 3% |
| Indonesian | 804 | 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●
- Vusi Lamolab. 1950ZAfootballer
- Vusi Pikolib. 1958ZASouth African lawyer
- Vusi Mahlaselab. 1965ZASouth African musician
- Vusi Kuneneb. 1966ZASouth African actor
- Vusi Malingab. 1979ZASouth African boxer
- Vusi Sibandab. 1983ZWZimbabwean cricketer
- Vusi Thembekwayob. 1985ZASouth African businessman and author
- Vusi Mthimkhulub. 1986ZASouth African football defender
- Vusi NovaZASouth African singer
- Vusi KhozaZASouth African politician
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 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SZ Eswatini | Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots | 2023 | 35 | #9 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 11 | #90,410 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #145,075 |
| NG Nigeria | The African Book of Names (Hodari, 2003) | — | — | — |
| SZ Eswatini | The page lists the top 100 traditional Eswatini names along with their meanings and cultural significance, provided by K | — | — | #11 |
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 · 5 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Vusi?
- Our records include 29,137 bearers of Vusi across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Vusi have the most bearers?
- Vusi is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled vusi.
- How common is Vusi compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Vusi is the 73rd most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
- Is Vusi a male or female name?
- Vusi 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 Vusi mean?
- Recorded meaning: One who restores the
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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, “Vusi” — the 73rd most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.