Sipiwe
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sipiwe is a given name, with more bearers in Zimbabwe than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Afrikaans, written in the Latin script.
- ZWZimbabwe1 in 13K◐
- ZMZambia1 in 73K
- ZASouth Africa1 in 98K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.0K ◐
- Sources
- 28 ●
- 1 in 13K ◐
across 6 countries
535 records
Official registry-verified
Zimbabwe
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●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZW Zimbabwe | #221 | ≈1.2K△ | 8 rec. | 1 in 13K | Sipiwe | 3 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈576 | 329 rec. | 1 in 98K | Sipiwe | 6 |
| ZM Zambia | #204 | ≈238△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 73K | Sipiwe | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈20 | 52 rec. | 1 in 3.3M | Sipiwe | 20 |
| US United States | — | ≈12 | 116 rec. | 1 in 28M | Sipiwe | 28 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈3 | 11 rec. | 1 in 8.4M | Sipiwe | 7 |
Roughly 1.2K people in Zimbabwe bear this name (about 1 in 13K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English31987%
- Afrikaans349%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 319 | 87% |
| Afrikaans | 34 | 9% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sipiwe?
- We estimate roughly 2.0 thousand people bear Sipiwe (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sipiwe have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.2 thousand people bear Sipiwe in Zimbabwe, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sipiwe.
- Where is Sipiwe most common?
- Sipiwe is densest in Zimbabwe, where we estimate about 1 in 13 thousand people carry it.
- How common is Sipiwe compared with other names?
- In Zimbabwe, Sipiwe is the 221st most common given name of 421 given names recorded there.
- Is Sipiwe a male or female name?
- Sipiwe is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Sipiwe” — the 221st most common given name in Zimbabwe. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.