Maseru

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Maseru (the capital city of Lesotho)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Maseru is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in South Africa.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa
  • LSLesotho
  • BWBotswana

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Maseru (the capital city of Lesotho)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.

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)

Maseru is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, town, Lesotho

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Polish, Maseru (the capital of Lesotho)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Lesoto galvaspilsēta (angļu val. "Maseru"), Kaledonas kreisajā krastā 1500 m vjl., 228000 iedzīvotāju (2006. g.)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Maseru 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

What does the name Maseru mean, and where does it come from?
Maseru (the capital city of Lesotho) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Maseru have the most bearers?
Maseru is most frequently recorded in South Africa.

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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, “Maseru”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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