Fatou

given name · French · Latin script

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

Fatou is a given name, most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is the 6th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and French (Côte d’Ivoire), written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Beloved by all.

rarermore common
  • SNSenegal1 in 84◐
  • FRFrance1 in 23K
  • ITItaly1 in 50K

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

≈8.0K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
237 ●

39K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 18K ◐

Sweden

Meaning & origin●

Beloved by all.

Sources 1

  • The African book of names

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Fatou is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SN Senegal#68,0332.9K rec.—277Fatou64
FR France—3,00526K rec.1 in 23K3KFatou237
US United States—2,3814.7K rec.1 in 140K2.4KFatou184
ES Spain—1,819△711 rec.1 in 27K1.8KFatou43
IT Italy—1,0111.1K rec.—38Fatou36
BE Belgium—742770 rec.—9Fatou37
SE Sweden#953568864 rec.1 in 18K568Fatou29
GB United Kingdom—530336 rec.——Fatou57
CI Côte d’Ivoire—378402 rec.—673Fatou20
TG Togo#712503 rec.——Fatou6
MA Morocco—67149 rec.—listedFatou19
DK Denmark—62△1 rec.1 in 95K62—1

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Languages●

  • French53K64%
  • French (Côte d’Ivoire)7K8%
  • English6.4K8%
  • Spanish6.3K8%
  • Catalan1.8K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French53,34364%
French (Côte d’Ivoire)7,0218%
English6,3958%
Spanish6,3348%
Catalan1,8192%

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◐

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

  • Spanish given name7.4K records spelled Fatou4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Senegal, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Fãtõü

61 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●

0204060200020102020

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Fatou in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1991–2025
Yearrecords
19915
19929
199314
199412
199522
199621
199727
199825
199939
200045
200139
200248
200353
200434
200536
200649
200744
200847
200934
201049
201136
201230
201321
201425
201539
201646
201744
201838
201930
202038
202129
202239
202345
202455
202556

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 35 years between 1991–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

196019802000Fatou Bensouda, b. 1961Fatou N'Diaye, b. 1962Fatou Diome, b. 1968Fatou Kande Senghor, b. 1971Fatou N'Diaye, b. 1980Fatou Dieng, b. 1983Fatou Baldeh, b. 1983Fatou Tiyana, b. 1987Fatou Jallow, b. 1996

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 52 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Fatou
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20243K#448
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.4K#6,628
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.8K#1,859
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.5K#1,093
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—673#760
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—568#2,539
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020364—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—326#3,365
SN SenegalDGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024)2024277#2
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—100#27,596
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—100#27,429
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—96#5,492

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 · 174 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Fatou?
We estimate roughly 8.0 thousand people bear Fatou (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Fatou have the most bearers?
Fatou is most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is most often spelled fatou.
How common is Fatou compared with other names?
In Senegal, Fatou is the 6th most common given name of 3,508 given names recorded there.
Is Fatou a male or female name?
Fatou 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.
What does the name Fatou mean?
Recorded meaning: Beloved by all.
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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, “Fatou” — the 6th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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