Nomsa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nomsa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country, where it is the 78th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Kindness is found.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 959(inferred from the name graph)
- SZEswatini≈1 in 2K
- BWBotswana≈1 in 3.2K
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
- 64 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 959 (inferred from the name graph)
≈59,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Kindness is found
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nomsa 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 | #78 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 959 | — | Nomsa | 64 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | #771 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Nomsa | 19 |
| ZM Zambia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Nomsa | 9 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Nomsa | 3 |
| MZ Mozambique | #775 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Nomsa | 3 |
| BW Botswana | #146 | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Nomsa | 4 |
| SZ Eswatini | #14 | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 13 | Nomsa | 8 |
| PL Poland | — | 8 | 1 in 4.8M | 8 | — | 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.
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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Nomsa 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.
Mother of kindness.
as a nameThe African book of names
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)
- Nomsa Manakab. 1962ZASouth African dancer, choreographer and actress
- Nomsa Innocencia Tarabella-Marchesib. 1970ZASouth African politician
- Nomsa Josephina Kubhekab. 1970member of the National Assembly of South Africa
- Nomsa Buthelezib. 1982ZASouth African actress and television presenter
- Helene Nomsa BrathUSAmerican model and activist
- Nomsa MdlaloseSouth African folklorist, storyteller, writer, and cultural scholar
- Nomsa MtsweniZASouth African politician
- Nomsa Jenifer MlangaZWZimbabwean 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Nomsa mean, and where does it come from?
- Kindness is found Recorded by The book of African names.
- Is Nomsa a male or female name?
- Nomsa 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 Nomsa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 59 thousand people named Nomsa in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nomsa.
- How common is the name Nomsa?
- In Poland, the national register counted 8 people named Nomsa in 2026, about 1 in 4.8 million residents.
- How common is Nomsa compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Nomsa is the 78th most common given name of 189,620 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nomsa?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nomsaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Nomsa” — the 78th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.