Xolani
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Xolani is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is the 69th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and English (South Africa), written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Be forgiven.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 1.3K◐
- SZEswatini1 in 1K
- ZWZimbabwe1 in 56K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈15 ●
- Sources
- 68 ●
- 1 in 351K ◐
across 3 countries
27K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
Be forgiven.
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 | #69 | 26,320 | 27K rec. | — | — | Xolani | 68 |
| US United States | — | 185 | 138 rec. | — | 209 | Xolani | 53 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 77 | 61 rec. | — | — | Xolani | 23 |
| AU Australia | — | 25 | 25 rec. | — | — | Xolani | 12 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | — | 15 | 11 rec. | — | — | Xolani | 11 |
| CA Canada | — | 13 | 12 rec. | — | 1 | Xolani | 7 |
| DE Germany | — | 11 | 7 rec. | — | — | Xolani | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 7 | 4 rec. | 1 in 2.5M | 7 | Xolani | 2 |
| PL Poland | — | 7 | — | 1 in 5.5M | 7 | — | — |
| SZ Eswatini | #78 | 6 | 6 rec. | — | 11 | Xolani | 7 |
| FR France | — | 6 | 6 rec. | — | — | Xolani | 6 |
| AR Argentina | — | 5 | 1 rec. | — | 2 | Xolani | 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●
- English16K48%
- English (South Africa)5.7K17%
- Swahili4.1K12%
- Hindi8152%
- Dutch7942%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 15,921 | 48% |
| English (South Africa) | 5,684 | 17% |
| Swahili | 4,088 | 12% |
| Hindi | 815 | 2% |
| Dutch | 794 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 |
| 2008 | 6 |
| 2010 | 5 |
| 2011 | 7 |
| 2012 | 8 |
| 2013 | 9 |
| 2014 | 8 |
| 2015 | 15 |
| 2016 | 9 |
| 2017 | 21 |
| 2018 | 32 |
| 2019 | 30 |
| 2020 | 63 |
| 2021 | 96 |
| 2022 | 130 |
| 2023 | 177 |
| 2024 | 209 |
| 2025 | 209 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 18 years between 2004–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 209 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 209 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 177 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 130 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 96 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 63 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 32 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 14 | — |
| SZ Eswatini | Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots | 2023 | 11 | #28 |
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 · 35 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Xolani?
- We estimate roughly 15 people bear Xolani (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Xolani have the most bearers?
- Xolani is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled xolani.
- How common is Xolani compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Xolani is the 69th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
- Is Xolani a male or female name?
- Xolani 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 Xolani mean?
- Recorded meaning: Be forgiven.
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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, “Xolani” — the 69th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.