Sibusiso
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Blessing
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sibəsɪsoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sibusiso is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country, where it is the 38th most common given name.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 559(inferred from the name graph)
- SZEswatini≈1 in 332
- ZWZimbabwe≈1 in 4.9K
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
- 105 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 332 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Eswatini, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Blessing
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sibusiso 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 | #38 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 559 | — | Sibusiso | 105 |
| SZ Eswatini | #1 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 332 | 65 | Sibusiso | 16 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | listed | Sibusiso | 16 |
| MW Malawi | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Sibusiso | 3 |
| ZM Zambia | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Sibusiso | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 11 | 1 in 928K | 11 | — | 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; the masakhane register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- Sibusiso Bengub. 1934ZASouth African politician
- Sibusiso Moyob. 1960ZWZimbabwean politician
- Sibusiso Zumab. 1975ZASouth African footballer
- Sibusiso Dlaminib. 1980SZSwazi footballer
- Sibusiso Matsenjwab. 1988SZSwazi sprinter
- Sibusiso Macdonald Kulab. 1988member of the National Assembly of South Africa
- Sibusiso Vilakazib. 1989ZASouth African association football player
- Sibusiso Khumalob. 1989ZASouth African footballer (born 1989)
- Sibusiso Mabilisob. 1999ZASouth African football player
- Sibusiso Welcome Mdabemember of the National Assembly of South Africa
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SZ Eswatini | Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots | 2023 | 65 | #2 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 11 | #33,436 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | MasakhaNER 2.0 — Zimbabwe (sna) | — | — | — |
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 Sibusiso mean, and where does it come from?
- Blessing Recorded by The book of African names.
- How do you pronounce Sibusiso?
- A machine transcription gives /sibəsɪsoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Sibusiso a male or female name?
- Sibusiso 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.
- In which country does Sibusiso have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 101 thousand people named Sibusiso in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sibusiso.
- How common is the name Sibusiso?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 11 people named Sibusiso, about 1 in 928 thousand residents.
- How common is Sibusiso compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Sibusiso is the 38th most common given name of 189,620 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sibusiso?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sibusisoThe 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, “Sibusiso” — the 38th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.