Mogale
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A brave one
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/moʊɡeɪɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mogale is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 2.7M
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 5.5M
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
- 56 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A brave one
Sources 1
- A Handbook of African Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mogale 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 | #330 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Mogale | 56 |
| IN India | — | 19 | 1 in 70M | 19 | Mogale | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 5.5M | — | Mogale | 19 |
| US United States | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 29M | — | Mogale | 15 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Mogale | 17 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Mogale is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Tswana, Member of the Mogale clan.
as a wordsanames.co.za — South African surnames
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 133 | #5,664 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 19 | #81,034 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #362,315 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mogale mean, and where does it come from?
- A brave one Recorded by A Handbook of African Names.
- How do you pronounce Mogale?
- A machine transcription gives /moʊɡeɪɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mogale have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Mogale in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mogale.
- How common is the name Mogale?
- In India, the national register counted 19 people named Mogale, about 1 in 70 million residents.
- How common is Mogale compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Mogale is the 330th most common surname of 285,788 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mogaleThe 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, “Mogale” — the 330th most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.