Aliou
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aliou is a given name, most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is the 14th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- SNSenegal1 in 156◐
- ESSpain1 in 38K
- FRFrance1 in 80K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.6K ●
- Sources
- 159 ●
- 1 in 38K ◐
across 9 countries
15K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
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 bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #14 | 4,328 | 1.4K rec. | — | 44 | Aliou | 52 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,316△ | 652 rec. | 1 in 38K | 1.3K | Aliou | 42 |
| FR France | — | 850 | 7.1K rec. | 1 in 80K | 850 | Aliou | 159 |
| CM Cameroon | #183 | 577 | 815 rec. | — | — | Aliou | 13 |
| IT Italy | — | 555 | 594 rec. | — | 6 | Aliou | 28 |
| ML Mali | #39 | 352 | 347 rec. | — | 2 | Aliou | 25 |
| US United States | — | 338 | 2.2K rec. | 1 in 984K | 338 | Aliou | 105 |
| BE Belgium | — | 277 | 290 rec. | — | — | Aliou | 20 |
| TG Togo | #89 | 230 | 40 rec. | — | 1 | Aliou | 10 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 186 | 196 rec. | — | — | Aliou | 12 |
| DE Germany | — | 154 | 177 rec. | — | 1 | Aliou | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 45 | 75 rec. | — | — | Aliou | 23 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French18K63%
- Spanish4.5K15%
- English1.4K5%
- Catalan1.3K4%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)7673%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 18,345 | 63% |
| Spanish | 4,542 | 15% |
| English | 1,368 | 5% |
| Catalan | 1,316 | 4% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 767 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Aliou 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 Portuguese, third-person singular preterite indicative of aliar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 |
| 2002 | 7 |
| 2003 | 8 |
| 2004 | 8 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2007 | 10 |
| 2008 | 6 |
| 2009 | 12 |
| 2010 | 5 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2012 | 7 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 10 |
| 2016 | 9 |
| 2017 | 7 |
| 2018 | 7 |
| 2019 | 8 |
| 2020 | 12 |
| 2021 | 9 |
| 2022 | 7 |
| 2023 | 8 |
| 2024 | 11 |
| 2025 | 9 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 24 years between 1998–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Aliou Mahamidoub. 1947NENigerien politician (1947-1996)
- Aliou Siby Badarab. 1971CIIvorian association football player
- Aliou Cisséb. 1976SNSenegalese and French association football player and coach (born 1976)
- Aliou Bahb. 1984GNConsultant specializing in micro-credit systems, responsible for courses in Development Economics and Contemporary Geopolitics, Guinean politician
- Aliou Colyb. 1992SNfootballer
- Aliou Diengb. 1997MLMalian association football player
- Aliou Badjib. 1997SNassociation football player
- Aliou Traoréb. 2001FRFrench association football player
- Aliou Baldéb. 2002SNGuinean footballer
- Aliou Thiareb. 2003SNSenegalese association football player
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 36 sources across 25 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 115 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Aliou?
- We estimate roughly 2.6 thousand people bear Aliou (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Aliou have the most bearers?
- Aliou is most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is most often spelled aliou.
- How common is Aliou compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Aliou is the 14th most common given name of 3,508 given names recorded there.
- Is Aliou a male or female name?
- Aliou is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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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, “Aliou” — the 14th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.