Ousman
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ousman is a given name, most frequently recorded in France. In the Gambia it is the 5th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script.
- ESSpain1 in 56K◐
- FRFrance1 in 106K
- USUnited States1 in 125K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.6K ●
- Sources
- 129 ●
- 1 in 21K ◐
across 8 countries
15K records
Official registry-verified
Norway
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Usman in ES Spain, IN India, NG Nigeria and 4 more.
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 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 4,966 | 5K rec. | — | — | Ousman | 129 |
| US United States | — | 2,651 | 3.5K rec. | 1 in 125K | 2.7K | Ousman | 113 |
| ES Spain | — | 901△ | 140 rec. | 1 in 56K | 901 | Usman | 26 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 688 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Usman | 22 |
| CM Cameroon | #171 | 614 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Ousman | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 595 | 458 rec. | — | 3 | Ousman | 51 |
| SE Sweden | — | 402△ | 197 rec. | 1 in 25K | 402 | Ousman | 12 |
| NO Norway | — | 265△ | 29 rec. | 1 in 21K | 930 | — | 13 |
| DE Germany | — | 234 | 263 rec. | — | 1 | Ousman | 35 |
| GM Gambia | #5 | 228 | 285 rec. | — | 9 | Ousman | 56 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | 208 | 341 rec. | — | — | Ousman | 15 |
| DK Denmark | — | 148 | 0 rec. | 1 in 40K | 162 | — | 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●
- English3.3K27%
- French3.3K26%
- Spanish1.3K10%
- Arabic1.2K10%
- Catalan6115%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 3,349 | 27% |
| French | 3,299 | 26% |
| Spanish | 1,289 | 10% |
| Arabic | 1,246 | 10% |
| Catalan | 611 | 5% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1994 | 6 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1997 | 5 |
| 1999 | 10 |
| 2000 | 7 |
| 2001 | 17 |
| 2002 | 12 |
| 2003 | 15 |
| 2004 | 13 |
| 2005 | 15 |
| 2006 | 8 |
| 2007 | 15 |
| 2008 | 11 |
| 2009 | 11 |
| 2010 | 15 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2012 | 15 |
| 2013 | 15 |
| 2014 | 22 |
| 2015 | 7 |
| 2016 | 26 |
| 2017 | 11 |
| 2018 | 11 |
| 2019 | 21 |
| 2020 | 11 |
| 2021 | 11 |
| 2022 | 15 |
| 2024 | 8 |
| 2025 | 9 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 30 years between 1992–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ousman Badjieb. 1967GMGambian Chief of the Defence Staff
- Ousman Sonkob. 1969GMGambian politician
- Ousman Soweb. 1972GMGambian Politician
- Cedric Bolimab. 1979CDnot in their usual nameFrench association football player
- Ousman Kruballyb. 1988USAmerican basketball player
- Ousman Marongb. 1999GMGambian footballer
- Ousman Jabangb. 2001USAmerican soccer player
- Ousman Simab. 2001ESSpanish basketball player (born 2001)
- Ousman Jobeb. 2005GMGambian swimmer
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 42 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 611 | #3,996 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 542 | #19,341 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 452 | #2,266 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 202 | #5,195 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 187 | #102,571 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 136 | #6,296 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 133 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 131 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 128 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 121 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 118 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 117 | #142,108 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 110 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ousman?
- We estimate roughly 4.6 thousand people bear Ousman (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ousman have the most bearers?
- Ousman is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled ousman.
- How common is Ousman compared with other names?
- In the Gambia, Ousman is the 5th most common given name of 129 given names recorded there.
- Is Ousman a male or female name?
- Ousman 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, “Ousman” — the 5th most common given name in Gambia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.