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Given nameMasculineAI-aggregated

Thabo

/TA-bo/

Meaning

Joy, happiness.

Thabo is simply "joy" in Sesotho and Setswana: the happiness a child brings, made into a name. Its feminine companion is Thabang or Nthabiseng.

In the same family

  • Lerato"Love", the most common Sesotho girl’s name.

Who carries it

🇱🇸 🇿🇦Basotho🇧🇼 🇿🇦Batswana

Provenance

  • generated: 2026-07-04
  • source: Model-knowledge aggregation pass (2026-07-04); unverified, awaiting community affirmation.

This entry is a hypothesis awaiting its people. If your family tells it differently, that difference is exactly what we want.

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