Ibou
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ibou is a given name, most frequently recorded in France. In Senegal it is the 58th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- SNSenegal1 in 666◐
- FRFrance1 in 424K
- ITItaly1 in 265K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈133 ●
- Sources
- 89 ●
- 1 in 451K ◐
across 3 countries
2.4K records
Official registry-verified
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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 1,245 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Ibou | 89 |
| SN Senegal | #58 | 1,011 | 309 rec. | — | 2 | Ibou | 27 |
| US United States | — | 249 | 251 rec. | — | — | Ibou | 40 |
| IT Italy | — | 191 | 217 rec. | — | — | Ibou | 9 |
| ES Spain | — | 111 | 102 rec. | 1 in 451K | 111 | Ibou | 17 |
| BE Belgium | — | 41 | 45 rec. | — | — | Ibou | 12 |
| DE Germany | — | 40 | 55 rec. | — | — | Ibou | 11 |
| SE Sweden | — | 17△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 600K | 17 | — | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | 16 | 14 rec. | — | — | Ibou | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 13 | 11 rec. | — | — | Ibou | 6 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 11 | 11 rec. | — | — | Ibou | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 5 | 18 rec. | 1 in 3.5M | 5 | Ibou | 7 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French2.7K69%
- Spanish2717%
- English2075%
- Arabic1263%
- Catalan1113%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 2,725 | 69% |
| Spanish | 271 | 7% |
| English | 207 | 5% |
| Arabic | 126 | 3% |
| Catalan | 111 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Ibou Diopb. 1979SNSenegalese Romance philologist, cultural scientist and author
- Ibou Tourayb. 1994GBEnglish association football player
- Ibou Cisséb. 1996FRFrench association football player
- Ibou Dianko Badjib. 2002SNSenegalese basketball player (born 2002)
- Ibou Sanéb. 2005SNSenegalese 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 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 111 | #14,582 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 92 | #7,853 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 17 | #26,919 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 10 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 10 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 5 | #27,027 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 2 | #69 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2020 | 2 | #5,073 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #70,898 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | — | — |
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 · 29 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ibou?
- We estimate roughly 133 people bear Ibou (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ibou have the most bearers?
- Ibou is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled ibou.
- How common is Ibou compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Ibou is the 58th most common given name of 3,508 given names recorded there.
- Is Ibou a male or female name?
- Ibou 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
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, “Ibou” — the 58th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.