Sekou

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sekou is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Mali it is the 14th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Fighter.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 37K◐
  • ESSpain1 in 63K
  • USUnited States1 in 263K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈4.0K ●

across 8 countries

Sources
174 ●

19K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 37K ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Sékou in GN Guinea, CA Canada, BF Burkina Faso.

Meaning & origin●

Fighter

Sources 1

  • The book of African names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Sekou is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—1,83513K rec.1 in 37K1.8KSekou174
US United States—1,2662.1K rec.1 in 263K1.3KSekou146
ML Mali#14921920 rec.—13Sekou27
CI Côte d’Ivoire#630811872 rec.—1.9KSekou20
ES Spain—799△273 rec.1 in 63K799Sekou32
BE Belgium—246239 rec.—3Sekou20
SN Senegal#18421879 rec.—2Sekou18
DZ Algeria—188239 rec.—listedSekou4
IT Italy—162192 rec.—5Sekou15
GB United Kingdom—9976 rec.——Sekou23
SE Sweden—44△5 rec.1 in 232K44—5
LY Libya—3951 rec.——Sekou5

Roughly 1.8K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 37K). 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●

  • French24K56%
  • English6.6K15%
  • French (Côte d’Ivoire)5.4K13%
  • Spanish2.7K6%
  • Catalan7992%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French24,13656%
English6,64415%
French (Côte d’Ivoire)5,40613%
Spanish2,6586%
Catalan7992%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Sekou is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name10K records spelled Sekou7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sékou, Sékoû

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name7.3K records spelled Sekou2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Sékou

  • Spanish given name3.0K records spelled Sekou3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Italy, Mali

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sékou

  • a separate given name251 records spelled Sekou2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mali, Senegal

    Also written Sékou

  • Polish given name109 records spelled Sekou2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States

    Also written Sékou

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name99 records spelled Sekou7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish

    Also written Sékou

  • French (Guinea) given name94 records spelled Sekou2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Guinea

    Also written Sékou

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Sekou is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Guinean: 'learned'

    as a nameAfrican Names

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●

01020304019701980199020002010202038 · 2011

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Sekou in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1970–2025
Yearrecords
19707
197121
197235
197318
197420
197522
197617
197724
197813
197912
198014
19819
198215
198313
198411
19856
19866
19888
19897
199010
199113
19929
19937
199422
199518
199618
199718
199821
199926
200023
200123
200227
200329
200417
200532
200628
200734
200825
200921
201021
201138
201233
201329
201424
201519
201624
201730
201828
201928
202017
202123
202224
202323
202423
202535

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 55 years between 1970–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

192019401960198020002020Ahmed Sékou Touré, b. 1922Sékou Touré, b. 1934Sékou Berthé, b. 1977Sekou Cissé, b. 1985Sékou Sanogo, b. 1989Sekou Oliseh, b. 1990Sekou Gassama, b. 1995Sekou Koita, b. 1999Sekou Doumbouya, b. 2000Sékou Mara, b. 2002

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 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Sekou
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—1.9K#302
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.8K#523
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.3K#10,462
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—799#3,335
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—642#1,754
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—64#10,350
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—44#14,935
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—39#53,596
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—39#52,638
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201138—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202535—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)197235—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 · 135 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sekou?
We estimate roughly 4.0 thousand people bear Sekou (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Sekou have the most bearers?
We estimate about 1.8 thousand people bear Sekou in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sekou.
How common is Sekou compared with other names?
In Mali, Sekou is the 14th most common given name of 1,827 given names recorded there.
Is Sekou a male or female name?
Sekou 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 Sekou mean?
Recorded meaning: Fighter
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Sekou” — the 14th most common given name in Mali. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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