Mpho is the Sesotho and Setswana word for "gift" — used as a unisex name across South Africa, Lesotho, and Botswana.
Mpho 'M'atsepo Nthunya (born 1930) is the Mosotho writer of Singing Away the Hunger.
Mpho does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mpho reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.