Hamidou

given name · French · Latin script

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

Hamidou is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Burkina Faso it is the 33rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Ghana: name of Ghanaian origin.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 67K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 1.2M
  • BFBurkina Faso1 in 628

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

≈1.6K ●

across 8 countries

Sources
167 ●

17K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 67K ◐

France

Meaning & origin●

Ghana: name of Ghanaian origin

Sources 1

  • African Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Hamidou is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—1,01011K rec.1 in 67K1KHamidou167
CM Cameroon#1636631.2K rec.—listedHamidou19
SN Senegal#93558271 rec.—6Hamidou25
BF Burkina Faso#33550587 rec.——Hamidou17
ML Mali#36383365 rec.—3Hamidou21
ES Spain—330191 rec.1 in 152K330Hamidou26
DZ Algeria—293389 rec.—listedHamidou17
US United States—2731.5K rec.1 in 1.2M273Hamidou80
CI Côte d’Ivoire—241259 rec.—257Hamidou19
BE Belgium—160199 rec.—16Hamidou17
SE Sweden—160 rec.1 in 638K16—1
NL Netherlands—510 rec.1 in 3.5M5—6

Roughly 1K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 67K). 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●

  • French17K71%
  • Spanish1.9K8%
  • English1.3K6%
  • French (Côte d’Ivoire)9074%
  • Arabic5943%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French16,59871%
Spanish1,8938%
English1,3086%
French (Côte d’Ivoire)9074%
Arabic5943%

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◐

Hamidou is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name2.4K records spelled Hamidou7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Algeria, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Hämïdöü, Hàmïdôû

  • Spanish given name2.1K records spelled Hamidou5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Cameroon, Argentina

    Also written Hàmidoù, Hâmîdöu, Hamidôu

  • Arabic given name1.3K records spelled Hamidou21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Algeria, United States, Libya, Tunisia

    Also written Hàmidoù, Hamidôu, Hàmidou, Hämïdoů, Hamïdoű

53 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●

02.557.51020052010201520209 · 2017

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Hamidou in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 2002–2024
Yearrecords
20027
20038
20066
20075
20085
20095
20126
20145
20179
20199
20207
20226
20235
20245

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 14 years between 2002–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

192019401960198020002020Hamidou Maiga, b. 1932Amidou, b. 1935Hamidou Laanigri, b. 1939Hamidou Diallo, b. 1950Hamidou Dia, b. 1953Hamidou Toure, b. 1954Philippe Diallo, b. 1963Hamidou Keyta, b. 1994Hamidou Kante, b. 2004Hamidou Makalou, b. 2006

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 36 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Hamidou
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241K#1,060
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—330#6,169
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—287#3,136
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020273#31,246
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—257#1,731
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991144—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198165—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—53#43,034
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—53#42,563
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197139—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196135—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#25,742

Reference works 2

  • 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 · 90 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hamidou?
We estimate roughly 1.6 thousand people bear Hamidou (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Hamidou have the most bearers?
We estimate about 1.0 thousand people bear Hamidou in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled hamidou.
How common is Hamidou compared with other names?
In Burkina Faso, Hamidou is the 33rd most common given name of 3,081 given names recorded there.
Is Hamidou a male or female name?
Hamidou 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.
What does the name Hamidou mean?
Recorded meaning: Ghana: name of Ghanaian origin
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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, “Hamidou” — the 33rd most common given name in Burkina Faso. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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