Bakary
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bakary is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Mali it is the 12th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and French (Côte d’Ivoire), written in the Latin script.
- MLMali1 in 907◐
- ESSpain1 in 37K
- FRFrance1 in 39K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.6K ●
- Sources
- 183 ●
- 1 in 37K ◐
across 9 countries
17K 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 | — | 1,735 | 12K rec. | 1 in 39K | 1.7K | Bakary | 183 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,359△ | 447 rec. | 1 in 37K | 1.4K | Bakary | 31 |
| ML Mali | #12 | 1,031 | 1.1K rec. | — | 10 | Bakary | 29 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #823 | 528 | 584 rec. | — | 3.1K | Bakary | 25 |
| US United States | — | 383 | 957 rec. | 1 in 869K | 383 | Bakary | 93 |
| SN Senegal | #117 | 382 | 180 rec. | — | 4 | Bakary | 24 |
| IT Italy | — | 168 | 220 rec. | — | 1 | Bakary | 16 |
| BE Belgium | — | 122 | 127 rec. | — | 4 | Bakary | 17 |
| CM Cameroon | #805 | 98 | 238 rec. | — | — | Bakary | 7 |
| MR Mauritania | #20 | 94 | 116 rec. | — | — | Bakary | 7 |
| DZ Algeria | — | 80 | 131 rec. | — | listed | Bakary | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 72△ | 8 rec. | 1 in 142K | 72 | — | 6 |
Roughly 1.7K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 39K). 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●
- French20K55%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)6.2K17%
- Spanish4K11%
- English2.1K6%
- Catalan1.4K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 20,264 | 55% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 6,243 | 17% |
| Spanish | 4,041 | 11% |
| English | 2,055 | 6% |
| Catalan | 1,359 | 4% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 17 |
| 2000 | 17 |
| 2001 | 18 |
| 2002 | 18 |
| 2003 | 19 |
| 2004 | 23 |
| 2005 | 25 |
| 2006 | 26 |
| 2007 | 24 |
| 2008 | 29 |
| 2009 | 31 |
| 2010 | 34 |
| 2011 | 33 |
| 2012 | 35 |
| 2013 | 36 |
| 2014 | 37 |
| 2015 | 39 |
| 2016 | 41 |
| 2017 | 42 |
| 2018 | 44 |
| 2019 | 47 |
| 2020 | 45 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Bakary Sangaréb. 1960FRFrench actor
- Bakary Gassamab. 1979GMGambian football referee
- Bakary Diakitéb. 1980DEMalian footballer
- Bakary Soumareb. 1985MLMalian footballer
- Bakary Sorob. 1985CIIvorian footballer
- Bakary Konéb. 1988BFBurkinabé footballer
- Bakary Sakob. 1988FRMalian-French footballer (born 1988)
- Bakary Saréb. 1990CIIvorian footballer
- Bakary Nimagab. 1994MLMalian footballer
- Bakery Jattab. 1998GMnot in their usual nameGambian 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 39 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 3.1K | #173 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.7K | #606 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.4K | #2,309 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.2K | #1,138 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 383 | #24,726 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 72 | #10,696 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 47 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 46 | #8,634 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 45 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 44 | #12,983 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 44 | #49,182 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 44 | #48,409 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 · 93 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Bakary?
- We estimate roughly 3.6 thousand people bear Bakary (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Bakary have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.7 thousand people bear Bakary in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled bakary.
- How common is Bakary compared with other names?
- In Mali, Bakary is the 12th most common given name of 1,827 given names recorded there.
- Is Bakary a male or female name?
- Bakary 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, “Bakary” — the 12th most common given name in Mali. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.