Nkomo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Matebele of Zimbabwe: name
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ŋkoʊmoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nkomo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
30 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Matebele of Zimbabwe: name
Sources 1
- African Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nkomo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 30 | 1 in 1.3M | 17 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | — |
| ZA South Africa | — | — | — | Nkomo | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 152 | — | 3 |
| GY Guyana | — | — | 11 | — | — |
30 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)
Nkomo 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 nr, Nguni clan name meaning "cattle"; Mfengu branch were Ndebele refugees.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joshua Nkomob. 1917ZWZimbabwean politician (1917-1999)
- Peter Nkomob. 1961ZWZimbabwean association football player
- Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehokob. 1966ZASouth African politician
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 152 | #25,427 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 17 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 17 | #99,463 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 13 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 13 | #116,404 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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 Nkomo mean, and where does it come from?
- Matebele of Zimbabwe: name Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Nkomo?
- A machine transcription gives /ŋkoʊmoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Nkomo have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 30 people named Nkomo, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nkomo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nkomo is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.2 million people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nkomo?
- In Poland, the national register counted 30 people named Nkomo in 2026, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Nkomo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nkomoThe 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, “Nkomo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.