Names of Uganda UG

The names that most distinguish Uganda from the rest of the world are Michaelis, Benjamin and Daphine.

Written in English, Swahili, Ganda.

Population
43M
Official registers
2
Name forms recorded
786
BBuilt from 2 official registers, 786 name forms in our corpus, 5 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

fewerlarger share
Where the names most characteristic of Uganda are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Uganda included.

How names work in Uganda

3 naming traditions are in use in Uganda, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Uganda

Characteristic of Uganda

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Uganda holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

BenjaminDaphinePatrickRobertDenisJuliusIsaacHarrietRosemaryIvanSimonAnnetBenardVincentDerrickTonnyRachealImmaculateJoanMichealJustineMargretDerickYusufJumaTimothyAtimGeofreyJescaJijiFatumaRitahJacklineCalebPiusShafik
Sized by how much of the difference between Uganda's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

Benjamingiven name●
Daphinegiven name●
Patrickgiven name●
Michaelissurname●
Robertgiven name●
The best-attested names in Uganda, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family namesnot a population count

    Wikidata / Wikimedia Foundation. Counts: notable people. given and surname. 1,030 forms. Licence: CC0.

    What we know about this register

    Top-N given names + surnames among Wikidata persons with P27=Q1036. Snapshot 2026-05-19. N given: 1033, N surnames: 493. Heavy notability bias — diaspora/leadership over-represented; use as low-confidence enrichment only.

    Last verified 2026-05-19.

  • Parliament of Uganda MP Database — 11th Parliament sitting members2026not a population count

    Parliament of Uganda. Counts: not recorded. surname. 508 forms. 2026. Licence: unknown.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

Is there one naming system in Uganda?
No — 3 are described on this page (Swahili, Luganda, British), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Uganda”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/UG (data snapshot 2026-09-12).