Ngozi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: skin
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ngozi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 39th most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 548(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 125K
- USUnited States1 in 195K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 548 (inferred from the name graph)
≈390,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
skin
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ngozi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #39 | ≈390,000 est. | ≈1 in 548 | listed | Ngozi | 125 |
| US United States | — | 1,703 | 1 in 195K | 1.6K | Ngozi | 247 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Ngozi | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 125K | 26 | Ngozi | 108 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Ngozi | 17 |
| MT Malta | #15 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Ngozi | 2 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Ngozi | 8 |
| GY Guyana | — | 17 | 1 in 44K | 17 | — | 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: the african-book-names-hodari-2003 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Ngozi is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Blessing
as a nameThe book of African names
In Kinyarwanda, Ngozi (a city in Burundi)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ve, danger
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Burundi Republikā, 74200 iedzīvotāju (1990. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iwealab. 1954NGdirector-General of the World Trade Organization
- Ngozi Ezeonub. 1965NGNigerian film actor
- Ngozi Onwurahb. 1966NGNigerian film director
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieb. 1977NGNigerian writer (born 1977)
- Ngozi Monub. 1981NGswimmer
- Ngozi Onwumereb. 1992USNigerian bobsledder
- Ngozi Okobib. 1993NGNigerian association football player
- Ngozi Igwebikeactress
- Titilope Gbemisola AkosaNGnot in their usual nameNigerian climate justice advocate, environmentalist, lawyer, gender and social inclusion expert
- Ngozi PaulCACanadian stage and screen actress, writer, director and producer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #8,506 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 123 | #8,506 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 20 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 17 | #577 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 14 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Ngozi mean, and where does it come from?
- skin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ngozi a male or female name?
- Ngozi is a female 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 Ngozi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 391 thousand people named Ngozi in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ngozi.
- How common is the name Ngozi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,703 people named Ngozi in 2020, about 1 in 195 thousand residents.
- How common is Ngozi compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Ngozi is the 39th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ngoziThe 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, “Ngozi” — the 39th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.