Bintou

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bintou is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In the Gambia it is the 39th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and French (Côte d’Ivoire), written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 22K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 419K
  • GMGambia1 in 408

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈4.5K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
189 ●

15K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 22K ◐

France

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.

Where Bintou is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—3,02510K rec.1 in 22K3KBintou189
US United States—7931.8K rec.1 in 419K793Bintou113
SN Senegal#88577320 rec.—19Bintou39
ES Spain—507291 rec.1 in 99K507Bintou27
ML Mali#40350353 rec.—4Bintou19
BE Belgium—328276 rec.—5Bintou20
CI Côte d’Ivoire—309318 rec.—739Bintou17
GB United Kingdom—191122 rec.—listedBintou37
IT Italy—132141 rec.—7Bintou17
SE Sweden—106114 rec.1 in 96K106Bintou9
BF Burkina Faso#3787983 rec.——Bintou10
DE Germany—7454 rec.—listedBintou28

Roughly 3K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 22K). 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●

  • French25K70%
  • French (Côte d’Ivoire)4.5K13%
  • Spanish1.9K5%
  • English1.4K4%
  • Catalan5071%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French24,73570%
French (Côte d’Ivoire)4,53813%
Spanish1,8645%
English1,3784%
Catalan5071%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Bintou is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name2.0K records spelled Bintou3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Colombia, Senegal

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Biñtou

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

01020304020002010202035 · 2024

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Bintou in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1994–2025
Yearrecords
19946
19956
19965
19979
199814
199914
200014
200119
200222
200324
200421
200517
200623
200722
200824
200925
201014
201122
201218
201317
201418
201524
201627
201715
201815
201926
202019
202119
202227
202317
202435
202519

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 32 years between 1994–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Bintou Sanankoua, b. 1943Bintou Malloum, b. 1946Bintou Keita, b. 1958Bintou Dembélé, b. 1959Fatou Bintou Fall, b. 1981Bintou Ouattara, b. 1981Bintou Diémé, b. 1984

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 33 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Bintou
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20243K#444
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020793#14,701
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—739#691
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—507#4,533
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—408#2,451
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—106#8,239
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—74#9,328
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202057—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201957—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201855—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201752—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201649—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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 · 109 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bintou?
We estimate roughly 4.5 thousand people bear Bintou (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Bintou have the most bearers?
We estimate about 3.0 thousand people bear Bintou in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled bintou.
How common is Bintou compared with other names?
In the Gambia, Bintou is the 39th most common given name of 129 given names recorded there.
Is Bintou a male or female name?
Bintou 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

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Bintou” — the 39th most common given name in Gambia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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