Serigne
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Serigne is a given name, most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is the 18th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Chief.
- SNSenegal1 in 192◐
- FRFrance1 in 158K
- USUnited States1 in 825K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.4K ●
- Sources
- 130 ●
- 1 in 88K ◐
across 8 countries
10K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
Chief
Sources 1
- A Handbook of African Names
Attested across 2 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 | #18 | 3,503 | 1.5K rec. | — | 71 | Serigne | 54 |
| IT Italy | — | 867 | 990 rec. | — | 3 | Serigne | 40 |
| ES Spain | — | 452 | 418 rec. | 1 in 111K | 452 | Serigne | 42 |
| FR France | — | 430 | 3.1K rec. | 1 in 158K | 430 | Serigne | 130 |
| US United States | — | 403 | 3.3K rec. | 1 in 825K | 403 | Serigne | 111 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 103 | 66 rec. | — | — | Serigne | 23 |
| CA Canada | — | 89 | 40 rec. | — | 9 | Serigne | 15 |
| BE Belgium | — | 83 | 77 rec. | — | — | Serigne | 13 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 69 | 70 rec. | — | — | Serigne | 7 |
| DE Germany | — | 65 | 57 rec. | — | listed | Serigne | 27 |
| BR Brazil | — | 63△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 3.4M | 63 | Serigne | 3 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 59 | 66 rec. | — | — | Serigne | 4 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French11K54%
- Spanish4.5K22%
- English2.1K10%
- Portuguese7574%
- Catalan4522%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 11,263 | 54% |
| Spanish | 4,548 | 22% |
| English | 2,076 | 10% |
| Portuguese | 757 | 4% |
| Catalan | 452 | 2% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 1998 | 9 |
| 2000 | 8 |
| 2001 | 10 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2003 | 9 |
| 2004 | 8 |
| 2005 | 8 |
| 2006 | 8 |
| 2007 | 7 |
| 2008 | 10 |
| 2010 | 7 |
| 2011 | 10 |
| 2012 | 12 |
| 2013 | 6 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2015 | 10 |
| 2016 | 9 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2018 | 10 |
| 2019 | 12 |
| 2020 | 9 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 8 |
| 2023 | 15 |
| 2024 | 25 |
| 2025 | 23 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 28 years between 1995–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Abasse Ndioneb. 1946SNnot in their usual nameSenegalese writer (1946–2024)
- Serigne Mbayéb. 1975ESSenegalese and Spanish activist and politician
- Disizb. 1978FRnot in their usual nameFrench rapper, actor and writer
- Serigne Diopb. 1988FRfootballer
- Kara Mbodjb. 1989SNnot in their usual nameSenegalese footballer (born 1989)
- Magaye Gueyeb. 1990FRnot in their usual nameSenegalese-French footballer (born 1990)
- Serignesaliou Diopb. 2003JPnot in their usual nameJapanese association football player
- Serigne Saliou Mbacke Thiouneb. 2004ITItalian association football player
- Serigne Moustapha Diakhatéb. 2004SNSenegalese basketball player (born 2004)
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 33 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 452 | #4,905 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 430 | #1,248 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 403 | #23,988 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 361 | #2,668 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 174 | #108,494 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 159 | #110,825 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 151 | #108,734 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 71 | #20 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 63 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 62 | #56,841 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 37 | #16,635 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 36 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 136 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Serigne?
- We estimate roughly 1.4 thousand people bear Serigne (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Serigne have the most bearers?
- Serigne is most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is most often spelled serigne.
- How common is Serigne compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Serigne is the 18th most common given name of 3,508 given names recorded there.
- Is Serigne a male or female name?
- Serigne 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 Serigne mean?
- Recorded meaning: Chief
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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, “Serigne” — the 18th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.