Sibeko
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sibeko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 273K
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
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
- 51 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sibeko 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 | #153 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Sibeko | 51 |
| NO Norway | — | 20 | 1 in 273K | 20 | Sibeko | 3 |
| US United States | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 21M | — | Sibeko | 26 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Sibeko | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 6.8M | 11 | Sibeko | 13 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | Sibeko | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Letitia Sibekob. 1930ZASouth African anti-apartheid activist
- David Sibekob. 1938ZASouth African political activist (1938–1979)
- Guro Sibekob. 1975NONorwegian writer
- Nkuli Sibekob. 1980ZASouth African actress
- Nkuly Sibekob. 1991ZASouth African artist (born 1991)
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 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 20 | #42,418 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 11 | #134,717 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #74,191 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- In which country does Sibeko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Sibeko in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sibeko.
- How common is the name Sibeko?
- In Norway, the national register counted 20 people named Sibeko, about 1 in 273 thousand residents.
- How common is Sibeko compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Sibeko is the 153rd most common surname of 285,788 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sibeko?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sibekoThe 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, “Sibeko” — the 153rd most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.