Fallou

given name · French · Latin script

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

Fallou is a given name, most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is the 44th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • SNSenegal1 in 373
  • FRFrance1 in 353K
  • ITItaly1 in 74K

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

≈676

across 6 countries

Sources
128

5.5K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 80K

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.

Where Fallou is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SN Senegal#441,8041.4K rec.23Fallou39
FR France1,4951.9K rec.24Fallou128
IT Italy680782 rec.6Fallou25
ES Spain623305 rec.1 in 80K623Fallou31
US United States593749 rec.9Fallou46
BE Belgium113123 rec.Fallou11
DE Germany6461 rec.1Fallou21
ZA South Africa2833 rec.Fallou4
SE Sweden273 rec.1 in 378K273
CI Côte d’Ivoire2626 rec.Fallou3
TR Türkiye2425 rec.Fallou3
MA Morocco2321 rec.Fallou9

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages

  • French4.7K52%
  • Spanish2.4K27%
  • Catalan6237%
  • English4575%
  • Portuguese1321%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French4,67352%
Spanish2,43927%
Catalan6237%
English4575%
Portuguese1321%

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

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

  • Spanish given name2.7K records spelled Fallou3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, Brazil, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Falloù

36 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.

Other recorded senses

Fallou is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, 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 fallar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In idb, past of fallá

    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

0510152005201020152020202514 · 2005

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Fallou in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 2002–2025
Yearrecords
20026
20045
200514
200613
20086
200911
201010
20115
20148
20155
201611
20176
20186
20195
20205
20227
20259

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)17 years between 2002–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name

175018001850190019502000Friedrich Albert Fallou, b. 1794Jules Ferdinand Fallou, b. 1812Thierry Fallou, b. 1956

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 26 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Fallou
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)623#3,938
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)444#2,293
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194143
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196138
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195135
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197131
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193130
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190129
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)27#20,372
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)25#20,557
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)25#19,174
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192125

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 · 85 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Fallou?
We estimate roughly 676 people bear Fallou (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Fallou have the most bearers?
Fallou is most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is most often spelled fallou.
How common is Fallou compared with other names?
In Senegal, Fallou is the 44th most common given name of 3,508 given names recorded there.
Is Fallou a male or female name?
Fallou 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

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, “Fallou” — the 44th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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