Coumba
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Coumba is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Mauritania it is the 32nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- SNSenegal1 in 342◐
- FRFrance1 in 29K
- MLMali1 in 6.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.1K ●
- Sources
- 174 ●
- 1 in 29K ◐
across 7 countries
10K records
Official registry-verified
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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 2,350 | 8.4K rec. | 1 in 29K | 2.4K | Coumba | 174 |
| SN Senegal | #38 | 1,969 | 660 rec. | — | 77 | Coumba | 45 |
| ES Spain | — | 370△ | 181 rec. | 1 in 135K | 370 | Coumba | 28 |
| US United States | — | 330 | 504 rec. | 1 in 1M | 330 | Coumba | 102 |
| IT Italy | — | 170 | 176 rec. | — | 8 | Coumba | 11 |
| ML Mali | #66 | 147 | 143 rec. | — | 1 | Coumba | 15 |
| BE Belgium | — | 142 | 116 rec. | — | — | Coumba | 20 |
| MR Mauritania | #32 | 54 | 55 rec. | — | — | Coumba | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 40 | 29 rec. | — | — | Coumba | 20 |
| CA Canada | — | 31 | 24 rec. | — | 1 | Coumba | 16 |
| SE Sweden | — | 23△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 444K | 23 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 13 | — | 1 in 1.3M | 13 | — | — |
Roughly 2.4K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 29K). 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●
- French21K87%
- Spanish1.3K5%
- English5362%
- Catalan3702%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)2221%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 20,923 | 87% |
| Spanish | 1,282 | 5% |
| English | 536 | 2% |
| Catalan | 370 | 2% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 222 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 6 |
| 2001 | 12 |
| 2002 | 7 |
| 2003 | 9 |
| 2004 | 9 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2006 | 12 |
| 2007 | 7 |
| 2008 | 9 |
| 2009 | 9 |
| 2010 | 7 |
| 2011 | 11 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2014 | 15 |
| 2015 | 14 |
| 2016 | 7 |
| 2017 | 10 |
| 2018 | 7 |
| 2019 | 10 |
| 2020 | 8 |
| 2021 | 10 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 10 |
| 2024 | 10 |
| 2025 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 25 years between 1999–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ndèye Coumba Mbengue Diakhatéb. 1924SNSenegalese educator and poet
- Coumba Ndoffène Dioufb. 1932SNSenegalese politician (born 1932)
- Coumba Dieng Sowb. 1952SNagroeconomist and public policy specialist
- Coumba Dickel Diawarab. 1959SNSenegalese basketball player (born 1959)
- Coumba Touré Kaneb. 1963SNSenegalese microbiologist
- Coumba Gawlo Seckb. 1972SNSenegalese musician
- Coumba Tombe Diallob. 1990FRFrench rugby union player
- Maty Coumba Dioufb. 1992SNSenegalese fencer
- Coumba Ndoyeb. 1993SNSenegalese taekwondoin
- Coumba Sowb. 1994CHSwiss footballer
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 22 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 2.4K | #593 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 370 | #5,644 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 330 | #27,293 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 301 | #3,034 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 77 | #17 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 37 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 23 | #22,683 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 18 | — |
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 · 84 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Coumba?
- We estimate roughly 3.1 thousand people bear Coumba (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Coumba have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 2.4 thousand people bear Coumba in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled coumba.
- How common is Coumba compared with other names?
- In Mauritania, Coumba is the 32nd most common given name of 559 given names recorded there.
- Is Coumba a male or female name?
- Coumba 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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Coumba” — the 32nd most common given name in Mauritania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.