Names distinctive to Eswatini

The list of names unique to the Kingdom of Eswatini*

Female forenames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank

Male forenames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank

Surnames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank
1. Vilakati 93% 2.
2. Mamba 30% 1.
3. Tsabedze 90% 3.
4. Mkhonta 89% 6.
5. Matsebula 73% 4.
6. Motsa 80% 5.
7. Fakudze 90% 7.
8. Ginindza 82% 9.
9. Gamedze 85% 11.
10. Bhembe 48% 8.
11. Sibandze 83% 12.
12. Nhlabatsi 92% 13.
13. Maziya 35% 9.
14. Mndzebele 96% 16.
15. Ndzinisa 83% 17.
16. Ndzimandze 87% 18.
17. Dludlu 23% 13.
18. Magongo 25% 15.

Distinctive names in
the related** countries

CountrySimilarity
South Africa 26%
New Zealand 20%
Australia 19%
Botswana 17%
Isle of Man 16%
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the) 16%
Zambia 15%

*The rank of the unique name is the geometric average of the name uniqueness and the name prevalence in the respective country. Name uniqueness is measured only by the exact grapheme form (not taking into account transliterational equivalents or phonetic similarities).

** Country similarity is the correlation of the relative frequency of the names shared by two countries (as measured by cosine similarity).