Kagišo

Name: Kagišo: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10
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surname · Latin script

Kagišo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country. In Botswana it is the 6th most common given name.

rarermore common

ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
BWBotswana≈1 in 563
CLChile≈1 in 1.2M

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
Sources: 72 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 563 (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Kagiso

Locally spelled Kagiso in ZA South Africa, US United States, BW Botswana and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kagišo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Kagišo is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
ZA South Africa	#181	≈31,000 est.	≈1 in 1.8K	Kagiso	72
BW Botswana	#6	≈4,100 est.	≈1 in 563	Kagiso	22
ID Indonesia	—	≈100 est.	≈1 in 2.6M	Kagiso	1
US United States	—	≈46 est.	≈1 in 7.2M	Kagiso	54
GB United Kingdom	—	≈20 est.	≈1 in 3.4M	Kagiso	28
CL Chile	—	≈16 est.	≈1 in 1.2M	Kagiso	1
AU Australia	—	≈13 est.	≈1 in 1.9M	Kagiso	23

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

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

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kagišo is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Croatian given name6 spellings in the group
Most recorded in South Africa
Also written Kagiso

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kagišo under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Kagišo have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Kagišo in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kagiso.
How common is the name Kagišo?: Mondonomo estimates about 31,000 people in South Africa have Kagišo as their first given name, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
How common is Kagišo compared with other names?: In South Africa, Kagišo is the 181st most common given name of 189,620 given names recorded there.

What do you want to know about Kagišo?

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kagi%C5%A1o

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-10 and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Kagišo” — the 181st most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)