Astou
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Astou is a given name, most frequently recorded in France. In Senegal it is the 62nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- FRFrance1 in 138K◐
- SNSenegal1 in 687
- MLMali1 in 49K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈580 ●
- Sources
- 141 ●
- 1 in 159K ◐
across 5 countries
4.7K 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 3,827 | 3.3K rec. | — | — | Astou | 141 |
| SN Senegal | #62 | 981 | 536 rec. | — | 57 | Astou | 38 |
| ES Spain | — | 314△ | 107 rec. | 1 in 159K | 314 | Astou | 20 |
| US United States | — | 235 | 360 rec. | 1 in 1.4M | 235 | Astou | 81 |
| IT Italy | — | 175 | 186 rec. | — | 12 | Astou | 11 |
| BE Belgium | — | 57 | 53 rec. | — | — | Astou | 13 |
| CA Canada | — | 31 | 29 rec. | — | 1 | Astou | 19 |
| SE Sweden | — | 23△ | 8 rec. | 1 in 444K | 23 | — | 5 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 23 | 22 rec. | — | — | Astou | 4 |
| ML Mali | #354 | 19 | 19 rec. | — | — | Astou | 5 |
| MX Mexico | — | 18 | 18 rec. | — | — | Astou | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 7 | 6 rec. | 1 in 2.5M | 7 | — | 3 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French5.7K70%
- Spanish92311%
- English4896%
- Catalan3144%
- Japanese1121%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 5,679 | 70% |
| Spanish | 923 | 11% |
| English | 489 | 6% |
| Catalan | 314 | 4% |
| Japanese | 112 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2002 | 10 |
| 2003 | 11 |
| 2004 | 10 |
| 2005 | 11 |
| 2006 | 12 |
| 2007 | 13 |
| 2008 | 12 |
| 2009 | 11 |
| 2010 | 11 |
| 2011 | 11 |
| 2012 | 11 |
| 2013 | 12 |
| 2014 | 12 |
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 13 |
| 2017 | 13 |
| 2018 | 14 |
| 2019 | 14 |
| 2020 | 15 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 19 years between 2002–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ndeye Astou Sarrb. 1950SNSenegalese basketball player
- Astou Ndiaye-Diattab. 1973SNSenegalese basketball player (born 1973)
- Astou Traoréb. 1981SNSenegalese basketball player (born 1981)
- Ndéye Astou BasseneSNSenegalese film maker
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 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 314 | #6,384 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 235 | #34,047 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 233 | #3,627 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 57 | #26 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 23 | #22,560 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #25,763 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #24,195 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 13 | — |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 61 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Astou?
- We estimate roughly 580 people bear Astou (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Astou have the most bearers?
- Astou is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled astou.
- How common is Astou compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Astou is the 62nd most common given name of 3,508 given names recorded there.
- Is Astou a male or female name?
- Astou is a female 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, “Astou” — the 62nd most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.