Segun
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Segun is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is the 94th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- NGNigeria1 in 1.2K◐
- USUnited States1 in 853K
- KEKenya1 in 176K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈415 ●
- Sources
- 183 ●
- 1 in 750K ◐
across 5 countries
83K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Segün in TR Türkiye.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #94 | 61,366 | 77K rec. | — | listed | Segun | 125 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 868 | 665 rec. | — | — | Segun | 98 |
| US United States | — | 390 | 3.5K rec. | 1 in 853K | 390 | Segun | 183 |
| KE Kenya | — | 164 | 1 rec. | — | — | Segun | 4 |
| CA Canada | — | 140 | 157 rec. | — | — | Segun | 41 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 98 | 101 rec. | — | — | Segun | 15 |
| ES Spain | — | 80 | 86 rec. | — | 50 | Segun | 12 |
| AU Australia | — | 70 | 77 rec. | — | — | Segun | 22 |
| IN India | — | 53 | 31 rec. | — | 1 | Segun | 10 |
| DE Germany | — | 48 | 75 rec. | — | — | Segun | 31 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 18 | 43 rec. | — | — | Segün | 4 |
| LA Laos | — | 16 | 0 rec. | — | — | Segun | 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●
- English63K80%
- Swahili7K9%
- Spanish2.2K3%
- Indonesian1.4K2%
- Turkish6231%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 62,888 | 80% |
| Swahili | 6,977 | 9% |
| Spanish | 2,249 | 3% |
| Indonesian | 1,364 | 2% |
| Turkish | 623 | 1% |
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●
Segun 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.
In io, according to, agreeably to, in conformity with; pursuant to, after
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, obsolete spelling of según
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, according to
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.
Notable people with this name●
- Olusegun Obasanjob. 1937NGnot in their usual namenigerian president (1999-2007) and military leader (1976–79)
- Olusegun Agagub. 1948NGnot in their usual nameNigerian politician (1948–2013)
- Segun Odegbamib. 1952NGNigerian footballer
- Olusegun Mimikob. 1954NGnot in their usual nameNigerian politician & Medical Doctor
- Sealb. 1963GBnot in their usual nameBritish musician, singer, songwriter and record producer
- Olusegun Adeniyib. 1965NGnot in their usual nameNigerian journalist
- Olli Banjob. 1977DEnot in their usual nameGerman rapper
- Lanre Oyebanjob. 1990GBnot in their usual nameassociation football player (born 1990)
- Segun Akinolab. 1992GBBritish composer
- Tayo Edunb. 1998GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player (born 1998)
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 15 sources across 10 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 · 71 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Segun?
- We estimate roughly 415 people bear Segun (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Segun have the most bearers?
- Segun is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled segun.
- How common is Segun compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Segun is the 94th most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
- Is Segun a male or female name?
- Segun 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/segunThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
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, “Segun” — the 94th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.