Oumou
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Oumou is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Guinea it is the 23rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and French (Côte d’Ivoire), written in the Latin script.
- SNSenegal1 in 634◐
- FRFrance1 in 24K
- USUnited States1 in 342K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.3K ●
- Sources
- 192 ●
- 1 in 24K ◐
across 8 countries
14K 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.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 2,855 | 10K rec. | 1 in 24K | 2.9K | Oumou | 192 |
| SN Senegal | #55 | 1,062 | 367 rec. | — | 25 | Oumou | 35 |
| US United States | — | 972 | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 342K | 972 | Oumou | 129 |
| BE Belgium | — | 573 | 554 rec. | — | 23 | Oumou | 26 |
| ML Mali | #33 | 428 | 411 rec. | — | 13 | Oumou | 27 |
| ES Spain | — | 406 | 363 rec. | 1 in 123K | 406 | Oumou | 29 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 155 | 160 rec. | — | 160 | Oumou | 10 |
| GN Guinea | #23 | 122 | 300 rec. | — | 2 | Oumou | 19 |
| IT Italy | — | 62 | 76 rec. | — | 4 | Oumou | 9 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #459 | 61 | 62 rec. | — | — | Oumou | 10 |
| EG Egypt | — | 33 | 14 rec. | — | — | Oumou | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 27 | 30 rec. | 1 in 640K | 27 | — | 9 |
Roughly 2.9K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 24K). 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●
- French26K79%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)2.2K7%
- Spanish1.5K5%
- English1K3%
- Catalan4061%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 26,079 | 79% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 2,226 | 7% |
| Spanish | 1,538 | 5% |
| English | 1,033 | 3% |
| Catalan | 406 | 1% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 1998 | 9 |
| 1999 | 14 |
| 2000 | 21 |
| 2001 | 23 |
| 2002 | 23 |
| 2003 | 20 |
| 2004 | 18 |
| 2005 | 23 |
| 2006 | 23 |
| 2007 | 29 |
| 2008 | 28 |
| 2009 | 27 |
| 2010 | 24 |
| 2011 | 33 |
| 2012 | 23 |
| 2013 | 43 |
| 2014 | 26 |
| 2015 | 32 |
| 2016 | 31 |
| 2017 | 39 |
| 2018 | 30 |
| 2019 | 28 |
| 2020 | 30 |
| 2021 | 31 |
| 2022 | 31 |
| 2023 | 20 |
| 2024 | 33 |
| 2025 | 35 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 30 years between 1996–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Oumou Soumaréb. 1950MLMalian politician
- Oumou Syb. 1952SNSenegalese fashion designer (born 1952)
- Oumou Coulibalyb. 1958MLMalian politician
- Oumou Sangaréb. 1968MLMalian singer
- Oumou Simbo Keïtab. 1968MLMalian politician
- Oumou Traoréb. 1969MLMalian athlete (* 1969)
- Oumou Sowb. 1970GNGuinean sprinter
- Oumou Cathy Bèyeb. 1980SNauthor from Senegal writing in French
- Oumou Touréb. 1988SNSenegalese-French basketball player
- Oumou Konéb. 1999MLMalian 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 33 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 2.9K | #416 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 972 | #12,677 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 406 | #5,276 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 316 | #2,918 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 160 | #2,574 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 43 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 39 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 35 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 32 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 31 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 123 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Oumou?
- We estimate roughly 4.3 thousand people bear Oumou (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Oumou have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 2.9 thousand people bear Oumou in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled oumou.
- How common is Oumou compared with other names?
- In Guinea, Oumou is the 23rd most common given name of 457 given names recorded there.
- Is Oumou a male or female name?
- Oumou is a female 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, “Oumou” — the 23rd most common given name in Guinea. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.