Ousmane
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ousmane is a given name, most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is the 8th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: West Africa: name.
- SNSenegal1 in 95◐
- MLMali1 in 681
- CICôte d’Ivoire1 in 4.8K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈7.9K ●
- Sources
- 233 ●
- 1 in 18K ◐
across 10 countries
38K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin●
West Africa: name
Sources 1
- African Names
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 | #8 | 7,062 | 2.4K rec. | — | 101 | Ousmane | 68 |
| FR France | — | 3,870 | 21K rec. | 1 in 18K | 3.9K | Ousmane | 233 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,752△ | 897 rec. | 1 in 18K | 2.8K | Ousmane | 58 |
| ML Mali | #10 | 1,374 | 1.3K rec. | — | 13 | Ousmane | 37 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #486 | 1,176 | 1.2K rec. | — | 913 | Ousmane | 32 |
| US United States | — | 1,116 | 4K rec. | 1 in 298K | 1.1K | Ousmane | 178 |
| BE Belgium | — | 828 | 831 rec. | — | 14 | Ousmane | 32 |
| IT Italy | — | 755 | 856 rec. | — | 15 | Ousmane | 39 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #17 | 752 | 795 rec. | — | — | Ousmane | 20 |
| CM Cameroon | #305 | 339 | 521 rec. | — | — | Ousmane | 14 |
| LY Libya | #754 | 123 | 218 rec. | — | — | Ousmane | 6 |
| DZ Algeria | — | 109 | 275 rec. | — | listed | Ousmane | 5 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French53K66%
- Spanish7.5K9%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)7.1K9%
- English3.5K4%
- Catalan2.8K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 53,334 | 66% |
| Spanish | 7,527 | 9% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 7,096 | 9% |
| English | 3,516 | 4% |
| Catalan | 2,752 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1994 | 6 |
| 1996 | 12 |
| 1997 | 7 |
| 1998 | 16 |
| 1999 | 18 |
| 2000 | 12 |
| 2001 | 19 |
| 2002 | 17 |
| 2003 | 24 |
| 2004 | 25 |
| 2005 | 20 |
| 2006 | 22 |
| 2007 | 15 |
| 2008 | 24 |
| 2009 | 28 |
| 2010 | 22 |
| 2011 | 26 |
| 2012 | 18 |
| 2013 | 26 |
| 2014 | 20 |
| 2015 | 28 |
| 2016 | 32 |
| 2017 | 32 |
| 2018 | 23 |
| 2019 | 21 |
| 2020 | 27 |
| 2021 | 21 |
| 2022 | 29 |
| 2023 | 46 |
| 2024 | 40 |
| 2025 | 31 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 32 years between 1993–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ousmane Sembeneb. 1923SNSenegalese film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author (1923–2007)
- Ousmane Sonkob. 1974SNSenegal politician and former tax official
- Ousmane Dabob. 1977FRFrench association football player (born 1977)
- Ousmane N'Doyeb. 1978SNSenegalese footballer
- Ousmane Cisseb. 1982MLMalian basketball player (born 1982)
- Ousmane Coulibalyb. 1989FRMalian and French association football player
- Ousmane N'Diayeb. 1991SNSenegalese footballer
- Ousmane Barryb. 1991GNGuinean footballer (born 1991)
- Ousmane Dembéléb. 1997FRFrench footballer (born 1997)
- Ousmane Diomandeb. 2003CIIvorian 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 55 sources across 34 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 178 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ousmane?
- We estimate roughly 7.9 thousand people bear Ousmane (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ousmane have the most bearers?
- Ousmane is most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is most often spelled ousmane.
- How common is Ousmane compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Ousmane is the 8th most common given name of 3,508 given names recorded there.
- Is Ousmane a male or female name?
- Ousmane 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 Ousmane mean?
- Recorded meaning: West Africa: name
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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, “Ousmane” — the 8th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.