Mduduzi

given name · Latin script

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

Mduduzi 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 4th most common given name. Recorded meaning: The comforter.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SZEswatini≈1 in 677
  • ZWZimbabwe≈1 in 4K

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)

≈48,000 people, est.

Sources
68 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 677 (inferred from the name graph)

Eswatini, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

The comforter.

Sources 1

  • The African book of names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mduduzi 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 Mduduzi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa#132≈48,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Mduduzi68
ZW Zimbabwe#929≈3,600 est.≈1 in 4K—Mduduzi19
SZ Eswatini#4≈1,600 est.≈1 in 67758Mduduzi16
GB United Kingdom—≈35 est.≈1 in 1.9M—Mduduzi36
US United States—≈18 est.≈1 in 19M—Mduduzi29
PL Poland—91 in 4.3M9—4
IE Ireland—≈5 est.≈1 in 1M—Mduduzi4

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Russian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa

    Also written Мдудузи

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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 Mduduzi under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mduduzi mean, and where does it come from?
The comforter. Recorded by The African book of names.
Is Mduduzi a male or female name?
Mduduzi 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 Mduduzi have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 48 thousand people named Mduduzi in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mduduzi.
How common is the name Mduduzi?
In Poland, the national register counted 9 people named Mduduzi in 2026, about 1 in 4.3 million residents.
How common is Mduduzi compared with other names?
In South Africa, Mduduzi is the 132nd most common given name of 189,620 given names recorded there.

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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, “Mduduzi” — the 132nd most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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