Leballo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Documented Sotho surname
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əlbæɫoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leballo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- LSLesotho≈1 in 286K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 18M
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
- 20 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Documented Sotho surname.
Sources 1
- sanames.co.za — South African surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leballo 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 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Leballo | 20 |
| LS Lesotho | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 286K | 1 | Leballo | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 18M | — | Leballo | 3 |
| US United States | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 141M | — | Leballo | 6 |
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: Lesotho IEC 2022 National Assembly candidate lists. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LS Lesotho | Lesotho IEC 2022 National Assembly candidate lists | 2022 | 1 | #13 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Leballo mean, and where does it come from?
- Documented Sotho surname. Recorded by sanames.co.za — South African surnames.
- How do you pronounce Leballo?
- A machine transcription gives /əlbæɫoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Leballo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Leballo in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leballo.
- How common is the name Leballo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3,600 people in South Africa have Leballo as their first surname, about 1 in 16 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leballoThe 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, “Leballo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.