Modou
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Modou is a given name, most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is the 35th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- SNSenegal1 in 292◐
- ITItaly1 in 23K
- ESSpain1 in 30K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.4K ●
- Sources
- 99 ●
- 1 in 30K ◐
across 10 countries
11K 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.
Attested across 9 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 | #35 | 2,309 | 1.5K rec. | — | 60 | Modou | 50 |
| IT Italy | — | 2,174 | 2.4K rec. | — | 9 | Modou | 35 |
| FR France | — | 2,146 | 1.9K rec. | — | — | Modou | 99 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,654 | 927 rec. | 1 in 30K | 1.7K | Modou | 44 |
| US United States | — | 430 | 2.5K rec. | 1 in 774K | 430 | Modou | 87 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 300 | 193 rec. | — | — | Modou | 41 |
| SE Sweden | — | 244 | 474 rec. | 1 in 42K | 244 | Modou | 21 |
| DE Germany | — | 203 | 217 rec. | — | listed | Modou | 34 |
| GM Gambia | #8 | 165 | 183 rec. | — | 7 | Modou | 58 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 156 | 174 rec. | — | — | Modou | 6 |
| CM Cameroon | #956 | 73 | 131 rec. | — | — | Modou | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | 61 | 0 rec. | 1 in 3.5M | 61 | Modou | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French8K37%
- Spanish6K28%
- English2.2K10%
- Catalan1.7K8%
- Portuguese5973%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 7,988 | 37% |
| Spanish | 6,033 | 28% |
| English | 2,206 | 10% |
| Catalan | 1,654 | 8% |
| Portuguese | 597 | 3% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 1963 | 5 |
| 1965 | 4 |
| 1969 | 10 |
| 1971 | 4 |
| 1972 | 5 |
| 1973 | 8 |
| 1974 | 10 |
| 1975 | 22 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1977 | 7 |
| 1978 | 14 |
| 1979 | 23 |
| 1980 | 11 |
| 1981 | 13 |
| 1982 | 26 |
| 1983 | 10 |
| 1984 | 22 |
| 1985 | 23 |
| 1986 | 29 |
| 1987 | 9 |
| 1988 | 4 |
| 1989 | 1 |
| 1990 | 12 |
| 1994 | 4 |
AR datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) — 24 years between 1963–1994. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Modou Niangb. 1945SNSenegalese painter
- Modou Fada Diagneb. 1969SNSenegalese politician
- Kara Mbodjb. 1989SNnot in their usual nameSenegalese footballer (born 1989)
- Modou Bahb. 1990NONorwegian actor
- Modou Barrowb. 1992GMGambian association football player
- Modou Jadamab. 1994GMGambian footballer (1994–2024)
- Modou Diagneb. 1994SNSenegalese footballer (born 1994)
- Modou Ndowb. 2000GMGambian 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 32 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.7K | #2,009 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.3K | #1,026 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 430 | #22,738 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 244 | #4,534 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 138 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 135 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 130 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 121 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 113 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 113 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 108 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 103 | — |
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 · 114 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Modou?
- We estimate roughly 2.4 thousand people bear Modou (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Modou have the most bearers?
- Modou is most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is most often spelled modou.
- How common is Modou compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Modou is the 35th most common given name of 3,508 given names recorded there.
- Is Modou a male or female name?
- Modou 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, “Modou” — the 35th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.