Dumisani
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Herald of the future
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dumɪsɑni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dumisani is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country. In Eswatini it is the 30th most common given name.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- MWMalawi≈1 in 1.5K
- ZWZimbabwe≈1 in 2.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Herald of the future
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dumisani 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #109 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Dumisani | 76 |
| MW Malawi | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Dumisani | 11 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | #667 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Dumisani | 20 |
| ZM Zambia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Dumisani | 10 |
| BW Botswana | #186 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Dumisani | 6 |
| SZ Eswatini | #30 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 10 | Dumisani | 6 |
| PL Poland | — | 9 | 1 in 4.3M | 9 | — | — |
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.
Registers cited: Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dumisani is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Herald of truth
as a nameThe book of African names
Herald
as a nameA Handbook of African 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(measured from records)
- Dumisani Maraireb. 1943ZWZimbabwean musician, master of mbira (1943–1999)
- Dumisani Dlaminib. 1963ZASouth African actor and dancer (born 1963)
- Dumisani Sitholeb. 1968ZASouth African politician
- Dumisani Matyeshanab. 1981ZASouth African rugby union footballer
- Dumisani Fannie MthenjaneZAmember of the National Assembly of South Africa
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SZ Eswatini | Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots | 2023 | 10 | #29 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 9 | #11,233 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #11,624 |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dumisani mean, and where does it come from?
- Herald of the future Recorded by The book of African names.
- How do you pronounce Dumisani?
- A machine transcription gives /dumɪsɑni/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Dumisani a male or female name?
- Dumisani 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.
- In which country does Dumisani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Dumisani in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dumisani.
- How common is the name Dumisani?
- In Poland, the national register counted 9 people named Dumisani in 2026, about 1 in 4.3 million residents.
- How common is Dumisani compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Dumisani is the 109th most common given name of 189,620 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dumisaniThe 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 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, “Dumisani” — the 109th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.