Lassana
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lassana is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Mauritania it is the 28th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- FRFrance1 in 33K◐
- SNSenegal1 in 1.9K
- MLMali1 in 2.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.8K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 167 ●
- 1 in 33K ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
12K records
Official registry-verified
France
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lasana in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 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 | — | 2,055 | 9.3K rec. | 1 in 33K | 2.1K | Lassana | 167 |
| ES Spain | — | 615△ | 231 rec. | 1 in 81K | 615 | Lassana | 24 |
| ML Mali | #30 | 444 | 440 rec. | — | 7 | Lassana | 18 |
| SN Senegal | #125 | 359 | 208 rec. | — | 3 | Lassana | 16 |
| US United States | — | 152 | 842 rec. | 1 in 2.2M | 152 | Lassana | 48 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 107 | 114 rec. | — | 495 | Lassana | 13 |
| MR Mauritania | #28 | 70 | 71 rec. | — | — | Lassana | 10 |
| IT Italy | — | 59 | 71 rec. | — | 2 | Lassana | 2 |
| DZ Algeria | — | 44 | 48 rec. | — | — | Lassana | 8 |
| DE Germany | — | 29 | 26 rec. | — | — | Lassana | 13 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #35 | 20 | 29 rec. | — | — | Lassana | 7 |
| TH Thailand | — | 17 | 11 rec. | — | — | Lasana | 7 |
Roughly 2.1K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 33K). 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●
- French19K81%
- Spanish1.3K6%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)6533%
- English6483%
- Catalan6153%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 18,604 | 81% |
| Spanish | 1,260 | 6% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 653 | 3% |
| English | 648 | 3% |
| Catalan | 615 | 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●
- Lassana Diarrab. 1985FRFrench footballer (born 1985)
- Lassana Fanéb. 1987MLMalian footballer
- Lassana Bathilyb. 1990MLFrench writer
- Lassana Camaráb. 1991GWfootball player
- Lassana N'Diayeb. 2000MLMalian football player
- Lassana Traoréb. 2007SNSenegalese association football player
- Lassana Diakoassociation 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 21 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 2.1K | #772 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 615 | #3,976 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 504 | #2,100 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 495 | #984 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 152 | #44,535 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 29 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 22 | #80,455 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 22 | #78,058 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #37,530 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #36,148 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 8 | #38,099 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 7 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 · 36 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Lassana?
- We estimate roughly 2.8 thousand people bear Lassana (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Lassana have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 2.1 thousand people bear Lassana in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled lassana.
- How common is Lassana compared with other names?
- In Mauritania, Lassana is the 28th most common given name of 559 given names recorded there.
- Is Lassana a male or female name?
- Lassana 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
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lassanaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
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, “Lassana” — the 28th most common given name in Mauritania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.