Idrissa
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Idrissa is a given name, most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is the 49th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Senegalese and Gambian: 'immortal'.
- SNSenegal1 in 480◐
- FRFrance1 in 52K
- USUnited States1 in 759K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.4K ●
- Sources
- 168 ●
- 1 in 52K ◐
across 6 countries
17K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin●
Senegalese and Gambian: 'immortal'.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 2 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #49 | 1,402 | 489 rec. | — | 13 | Idrissa | 42 |
| FR France | — | 1,310 | 8.1K rec. | 1 in 52K | 1.3K | Idrissa | 168 |
| ES Spain | — | 620△ | 222 rec. | 1 in 81K | 620 | Idrissa | 29 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #36 | 529 | 558 rec. | — | — | Idrissa | 17 |
| US United States | — | 438 | 3.6K rec. | 1 in 759K | 438 | Idrissa | 106 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #965 | 410 | 433 rec. | — | 866 | Idrissa | 21 |
| ML Mali | #35 | 385 | 378 rec. | — | 8 | Idrissa | 21 |
| BE Belgium | — | 260 | 340 rec. | — | 8 | Idrissa | 15 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 251 | 396 rec. | — | listed | Idrissa | 16 |
| IT Italy | — | 164 | 186 rec. | — | 3 | Idrissa | 12 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 144 | 117 rec. | — | 2 | Idrissa | 18 |
| DE Germany | — | 136 | 132 rec. | — | listed | Idrissa | 42 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French17K61%
- English2.9K10%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)2K7%
- Spanish2K7%
- Swahili6482%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 17,425 | 61% |
| English | 2,924 | 10% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 1,970 | 7% |
| Spanish | 1,951 | 7% |
| Swahili | 648 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Idrissa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Immortal.
as a nameThe African book of names
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1973 | 6 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2006 | 7 |
| 2008 | 7 |
| 2009 | 11 |
| 2010 | 8 |
| 2011 | 9 |
| 2012 | 14 |
| 2013 | 8 |
| 2014 | 9 |
| 2015 | 8 |
| 2016 | 7 |
| 2017 | 9 |
| 2018 | 6 |
| 2019 | 7 |
| 2020 | 8 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 8 |
| 2024 | 9 |
| 2025 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 23 years between 1973–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Idrissa Traoréb. 1943BFsoccer coach from Burkina Faso
- Idrissa Ouédraogob. 1954BFBurkinabe film director, screenwriter and producer (1954–2018)
- Abdoulaye Idrissa Maïgab. 1958MLPrime Minister of Mali
- Idrissa Seckb. 1959SNSenegalese politician
- Idris Elbab. 1972GBnot in their usual nameBritish actor
- Idrissa Sanoub. 1977BFathletics competitor
- Idrissa Coulibalyb. 1987MLMalian footballer
- Idrissa Gueyeb. 1989SNSenegalese association football player
- Idrissa Syllab. 1990GNGuinean association football player (1990-)
- Idrissa Touréb. 1998DEGerman association football player
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 48 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.3K | #659 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 866 | #609 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 620 | #3,956 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 535 | #1,996 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 438 | #21,056 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 48 | #21,056 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 35 | #57,683 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 35 | #56,582 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #12,322 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #13,267 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 24 | #17,221 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 22 | #22,893 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 · 99 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Idrissa?
- We estimate roughly 2.4 thousand people bear Idrissa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Idrissa have the most bearers?
- Idrissa is most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is most often spelled idrissa.
- How common is Idrissa compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Idrissa is the 49th most common given name of 3,508 given names recorded there.
- Is Idrissa a male or female name?
- Idrissa 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 Idrissa mean?
- Recorded meaning: Senegalese and Gambian: 'immortal'.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Idrissa” — the 49th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.