Tshuma
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tshəmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tshuma is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Zimbabwe than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 8.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZWZimbabwe≈1 in 1.1K
- BWBotswana≈1 in 2.3K
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
- 64 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 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)
Tshuma 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 | #392 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 64K | Tshuma | 28 |
| ZA South Africa | #827 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Tshuma | 40 |
| BW Botswana | #293 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Tshuma | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 374K | 119 | Tshuma | 64 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Tshuma | 3 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 429K | — | Tshuma | 43 |
| PL Poland | — | 19 | 1 in 2M | 10 | — | — |
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.; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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)
Tshuma 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, Sheep totem; a documented Ndebele clan name.
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)
- Petronella Tshumab. 1990ZASouth African actress
- Ndumiso TshumaZAresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-8689-9771
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 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 119 | #29,692 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 10 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 10 | #138,328 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #148,151 |
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
- How do you pronounce Tshuma?
- A machine transcription gives /tshəmə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tshuma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Tshuma in Zimbabwe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tshuma.
- How common is the name Tshuma?
- In Poland, the national register counted 19 people named Tshuma in 2026, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
- How common is Tshuma compared with other names?
- In Zimbabwe, Tshuma is the 392nd most common surname of 9,561 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tshuma?
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/tshumaThe 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, “Tshuma” — the 392nd most common surname in Zimbabwe. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.