Mutsi

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Mutsi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 85K(inferred from the name graph)
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 701K
  • KEKenya≈1 in 4.7M

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

South Africa (inferred from the name graph)

≈660 people, est.

Sources
10 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 85K (inferred from the name graph)

South Africa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mutsi 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 Mutsi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa≈660 est.≈1 in 85K—Mutsi10
KE Kenya≈11 est.≈1 in 4.7M—Mutsi6
EE Estonia≈2 est.≈1 in 701Klisted—1

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.

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)

Mutsi 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 Finnish, mom, mother

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

  • In ve, smoke

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

  • In bnt-lal, tree

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

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 Mutsi 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

In which country does Mutsi have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 664 people named Mutsi in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mutsi.
How common is the name Mutsi?
Mondonomo estimates about 660 people in South Africa have Mutsi as their first surname, about 1 in 85 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Mutsi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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