Mbili
surname · Latin script
Meaning: [[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#N class|n class_((IX/X))]] inflected form of -wili
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mbili is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in South Africa.
- ZASouth Africa
- CMCameroon
- KEKenya
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
[[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#N class|n class_((IX/X))]] inflected form of -wili
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- ZASouth Africa
- KEKenya
- FRFrance
- CMCameroon
- TZTanzania
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)
Mbili 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 nlg, dark brown, black, deep blue; but properly black
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In sga, eclipsed form of bili
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In men, drum. Mbili wo- ngo, sound of a drum
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
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)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #182,269 |
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 1 | #94 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Mbili mean, and where does it come from?
- [[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#N class|n class_((IX/X))]] inflected form of -wili Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Mbili have the most bearers?
- Mbili is most frequently recorded in South Africa.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mbiliThe 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, “Mbili”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.