Sibanda
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sibandə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sibanda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Zimbabwe than in any other country. In Botswana it is the 22nd most common surname.
- ZWZimbabwe≈1 in 194(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.8K
- BWBotswana≈1 in 677
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.
- Zimbabwe (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 194 (inferred from the name graph)
≈75,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Zimbabwe, 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)
Sibanda 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZW Zimbabwe | #115 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 194 | 284K | Sibanda | 69 |
| ZA South Africa | #166 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Sibanda | 75 |
| ZM Zambia | #430 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | 1 | Sibanda | 14 |
| BW Botswana | #22 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 677 | — | Sibanda | 16 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 581K | — | Sibanda | 7 |
| MZ Mozambique | #851 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Sibanda | 6 |
| PL Poland | — | 146 | 1 in 262K | 84 | Sibanda | 11 |
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: This page provides an overview of common surnames in Zimbabwe, published on surnam.es.; ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Sibanda 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.
In nr, Lion totem; symbolises strength and fearlessness.
as a wordsanames.co.za — South African surnames
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)
- Ernest Sibandab. 1925Zimbabwean Latter Day Saint
- Mercedes Sibandab. 1966MZMozambican association football player
- Dizzy Deeb. 1985ZWnot in their usual nameZimbabwean reggae singer, songwriter, musical artist and record producer
- Ayanda Candice Sibandab. 2000ZWZimbabwe model and ctivist on albinism and girls’ rights,
- Precious SibandaGBPh.D. Victoria University of Manchester 1996
- Timothy SibandaNAresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 84 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 84 | #34,050 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 62 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 62 | #43,368 |
| ZM Zambia | ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results | 2021 | 1 | #42 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Sibanda?
- A machine transcription gives /sibandə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sibanda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 75 thousand people named Sibanda in Zimbabwe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sibanda.
- How common is the name Sibanda?
- In Poland, the national register counted 146 people named Sibanda in 2026, about 1 in 262 thousand residents.
- How common is Sibanda compared with other names?
- In Zimbabwe, Sibanda is the 115th most common surname of 9,561 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sibanda?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sibandaThe 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, “Sibanda” — the 115th most common surname in Zimbabwe. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.