Nkululeko
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Freedom is ours
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nkululeko is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- SZEswatini≈1 in 2.5K
- ZWZimbabwe≈1 in 7.4K
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
- 78 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Freedom is ours
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nkululeko 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 | #260 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Nkululeko | 78 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Nkululeko | 20 |
| SZ Eswatini | #108 | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 10 | Nkululeko | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Nkululeko | 41 |
| US United States | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 16M | listed | Nkululeko | 39 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Nkululeko | 5 |
| 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: Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SZ Eswatini | Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots | 2023 | 10 | #29 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #29,274 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #40,259 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nkululeko mean, and where does it come from?
- Freedom is ours Recorded by The book of African names.
- Is Nkululeko a male or female name?
- Nkululeko is a male 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.
- What are other forms of the name Nkululeko?
- In the etymology graph, Nkuleleko is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Nkululeko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Nkululeko in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nkululeko.
- How common is the name Nkululeko?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Nkululeko in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
- How common is Nkululeko compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Nkululeko is the 260th most common given name of 189,620 given names recorded there.
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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, “Nkululeko” — the 260th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.