Sadio
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sadio is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Mauritania it is the 37th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: French-speaking West Africa: 'pure'.
- FRFrance1 in 77K◐
- SNSenegal1 in 1.2K
- MLMali1 in 3.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.7K ●
- Sources
- 162 ●
- 1 in 77K ◐
across 9 countries
8.7K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin●
French-speaking West Africa: 'pure'
Sources 1
- African Names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 885 | 7.3K rec. | 1 in 77K | 885 | Sadio | 162 |
| SN Senegal | #92 | 560 | 286 rec. | — | 13 | Sadio | 24 |
| ES Spain | — | 464△ | 176 rec. | 1 in 108K | 464 | Sadio | 21 |
| ML Mali | #48 | 263 | 251 rec. | — | 8 | Sadio | 19 |
| US United States | — | 165 | 185 rec. | 1 in 2M | 165 | Sadio | 52 |
| BE Belgium | — | 90 | 98 rec. | — | 4 | Sadio | 16 |
| BR Brazil | — | 64 | — | 1 in 3.3M | 96 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 55△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 186K | 55 | — | 2 |
| IT Italy | — | 50 | 58 rec. | — | 1 | Sadio | 8 |
| MR Mauritania | #37 | 46 | 52 rec. | — | — | Sadio | 7 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 30 | 32 rec. | — | — | Sadio | 5 |
| FI Finland | — | 19 | — | 1 in 293K | 48 | — | — |
Roughly 885 people in France bear this name (about 1 in 77K). 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●
- French13K70%
- Spanish1.6K9%
- English9015%
- Swahili6183%
- Portuguese5693%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 13,028 | 70% |
| Spanish | 1,635 | 9% |
| English | 901 | 5% |
| Swahili | 618 | 3% |
| Portuguese | 569 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Sadio is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Pure.
as a nameThe African book of names
In Welsh, to stabilise, to steady
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, healthy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 15 |
| 2000 | 15 |
| 2001 | 19 |
| 2002 | 18 |
| 2003 | 18 |
| 2004 | 19 |
| 2005 | 19 |
| 2006 | 19 |
| 2007 | 20 |
| 2008 | 23 |
| 2009 | 27 |
| 2010 | 30 |
| 2011 | 33 |
| 2012 | 34 |
| 2013 | 40 |
| 2014 | 43 |
| 2015 | 46 |
| 2016 | 48 |
| 2017 | 49 |
| 2018 | 52 |
| 2019 | 53 |
| 2020 | 50 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Sadio Lamine Sowb. 1952MLMali politician
- Sadio Gassamab. 1954MLMali politician
- Sadio Bab. 1973BEBelgian footballer
- Sadio CAMARAb. 1979MLMalian military officer (1979—2026)
- Nampé Sadiob. 1980MLMalian singer
- Sadio Sankharéb. 1981FRFrench and Malian footballer
- Sadio Diallob. 1990GNGuinean association football player
- Sadio Doumbiab. 1990FRFrench tennis player
- Sadio Manéb. 1992SNSenegalese footballer (born 1992)
- Sadio Doucouréb. 1992FRMalian basketball player (born 1992)
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 44 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 885 | #1,784 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 464 | #4,817 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 354 | #2,694 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 171 | #18,624 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 171 | #18,538 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 165 | #38,294 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 96 | #19,200 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 90 | #7,637 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 64 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 64 | #56,233 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 59 | #93,298 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 55 | #12,835 |
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 · 96 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sadio?
- We estimate roughly 1.7 thousand people bear Sadio (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sadio have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 885 people bear Sadio in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sadio.
- How common is Sadio compared with other names?
- In Mauritania, Sadio is the 37th most common given name of 559 given names recorded there.
- Is Sadio a male or female name?
- Sadio is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Sadio mean?
- Recorded meaning: French-speaking West Africa: 'pure'
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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, “Sadio” — the 37th most common given name in Mauritania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.