Sephora
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sephora is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In the Congo - Kinshasa it is the 67th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script.
- FRFrance1 in 21K◐
- BRBrazil1 in 1.5M
- GFFrench Guiana1 in 3.3K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.4K ●
- Sources
- 188 ●
- 1 in 21K ◐
across 9 countries
8.2K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 5 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 | — | 3,270 | 6.2K rec. | 1 in 21K | 3.3K | Sephora | 188 |
| US United States | — | 861△ | 213 rec. | 1 in 386K | 861 | Sephora | 44 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #67 | 827 | 824 rec. | — | 1 | Sephora | 9 |
| BE Belgium | — | 226 | 194 rec. | — | 6 | Sephora | 17 |
| MQ Martinique | #549 | 195 | 3 rec. | — | 5 | Sephora | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | 137 | 97 rec. | 1 in 1.5M | 137 | Sephora | 32 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 131 | 145 rec. | — | — | Sephora | 14 |
| CL Chile | — | 114 | 15 rec. | — | 3 | Sephora | 12 |
| PE Peru | — | 105 | 78 rec. | — | — | Sephora | 13 |
| PH Philippines | — | 91 | 54 rec. | — | — | Sephora | 10 |
| GP Guadeloupe | #789 | 90 | 3 rec. | — | 10 | Sephora | 4 |
| MX Mexico | — | 47 | 45 rec. | — | — | Sephora | 12 |
Roughly 3.3K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 21K). 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●
- French20K74%
- English2K7%
- Portuguese1.5K5%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)9533%
- Spanish6993%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 20,059 | 74% |
| English | 1,997 | 7% |
| Portuguese | 1,466 | 5% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 953 | 3% |
| Spanish | 699 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 1974 | 8 |
| 1975 | 7 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1988 | 6 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1992 | 7 |
| 1993 | 7 |
| 1994 | 5 |
| 1995 | 8 |
| 1997 | 14 |
| 1998 | 7 |
| 1999 | 11 |
| 2000 | 11 |
| 2001 | 20 |
| 2002 | 18 |
| 2003 | 17 |
| 2004 | 15 |
| 2005 | 17 |
| 2006 | 30 |
| 2007 | 24 |
| 2008 | 37 |
| 2009 | 37 |
| 2010 | 39 |
| 2011 | 37 |
| 2012 | 50 |
| 2013 | 46 |
| 2014 | 59 |
| 2015 | 58 |
| 2016 | 40 |
| 2017 | 46 |
| 2018 | 54 |
| 2019 | 37 |
| 2020 | 32 |
| 2021 | 32 |
| 2022 | 34 |
| 2023 | 45 |
| 2024 | 36 |
| 2025 | 31 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 40 years between 1974–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Sephora Nahonb. 1985FRFrench entrepreneur
- Sephora Kayolob. 1999CDCongolese basketball player
- Sephora BaugreetIEresearcher
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 47 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 3.3K | #2,298 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 861 | #13,827 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 137 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 137 | #33,104 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 86 | #24,641 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 65 | #43,555 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 44 | #12,899 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 35 | #10,485 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 31 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 30 | #42,255 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 26 | #19,014 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 24 | #23,952 |
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 · 256 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sephora?
- We estimate roughly 4.4 thousand people bear Sephora (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sephora have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 3.3 thousand people bear Sephora in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sephora.
- How common is Sephora compared with other names?
- In the Congo - Kinshasa, Sephora is the 67th most common given name of 18,770 given names recorded there.
- Is Sephora a male or female name?
- Sephora is a female 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
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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, “Sephora” — the 67th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.