Harouna
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Harouna is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Mauritania it is the 19th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and French (Côte d’Ivoire), written in the Latin script.
- FRFrance1 in 60K◐
- BFBurkina Faso1 in 853
- SNSenegal1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.7K ●
- Sources
- 158 ●
- 1 in 60K ◐
across 4 countries
12K 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.
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 1,130 | 8K rec. | 1 in 60K | 1.1K | Harouna | 158 |
| SN Senegal | #89 | 576 | 303 rec. | — | 8 | Harouna | 25 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #61 | 405 | 425 rec. | — | — | Harouna | 14 |
| ES Spain | — | 401△ | 87 rec. | 1 in 125K | 401 | Harouna | 23 |
| CM Cameroon | #279 | 371 | 608 rec. | — | 1 | Harouna | 14 |
| ML Mali | #41 | 348 | 362 rec. | — | 5 | Harouna | 23 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 240 | 259 rec. | — | 195 | Harouna | 11 |
| LY Libya | #588 | 166 | 331 rec. | — | — | Harouna | 3 |
| US United States | — | 143 | 646 rec. | 1 in 2.3M | 143 | Harouna | 67 |
| BE Belgium | — | 118 | 170 rec. | — | 5 | Harouna | 16 |
| MR Mauritania | #19 | 98 | 111 rec. | — | — | Harouna | 11 |
| DZ Algeria | — | 52 | 156 rec. | — | — | Harouna | 6 |
Roughly 1.1K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 60K). 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●
- French14K73%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)1.6K8%
- Spanish7884%
- English6233%
- Arabic4222%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 14,417 | 73% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 1,650 | 8% |
| Spanish | 788 | 4% |
| English | 623 | 3% |
| Arabic | 422 | 2% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2016 | 5 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2022 | 5 |
YT INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte) — 7 years between 2014–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Harouna Lagob. 1946NENigerien boxer
- Harouna Cisséb. 1957MLMalian politician
- Harouna Coulibalyb. 1962NENigerien writer and film director
- Harouna Kaboréb. 1977BFBurkinabé politician
- Harouna Colob. 1978FRFrench politician
- Harouna Ilboudob. 1986BFcyclist
- Harouna KantéMLMalian politician
- Harouna NiangMLMalian economist
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 14 countries.
Reference works 4
- 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 · 26 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Harouna?
- We estimate roughly 1.7 thousand people bear Harouna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Harouna have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.1 thousand people bear Harouna in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled harouna.
- How common is Harouna compared with other names?
- In Mauritania, Harouna is the 19th most common given name of 559 given names recorded there.
- Is Harouna a male or female name?
- Harouna 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.
Query this name via API
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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.
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, “Harouna” — the 19th most common given name in Mauritania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.