Moshoeshoe
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Southern Sotho: Royal Basotho name; "the shaver," from sound of a razor
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Moshoeshoe is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in South Africa.
- 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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Royal Basotho name; "the shaver," from sound of a razor.
Sources 1
- sanames.co.za — South African surnames
How Moshoeshoe is read(measured from records)
Moshoeshoe is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English60%
king, Lesotho
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Southern Sotho21%
Royal Basotho name; "the shaver," from sound of a razor.
as a wordsanames.co.za — South African surnames
- Swahili6.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Moshoeshoe in Swahili.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LS Lesotho | Lesotho IEC 2022 National Assembly candidate lists | 2022 | 5 | #9 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Moshoeshoe mean, and where does it come from?
- Royal Basotho name; "the shaver," from sound of a razor. Recorded by sanames.co.za — South African surnames.
- In which country does Moshoeshoe have the most bearers?
- Moshoeshoe 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/moshoeshoeThe 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, “Moshoeshoe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.