Seydou

given name · French · Latin script

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

Seydou is a given name, most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is the 66th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and French (Côte d’Ivoire), written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 73K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1M
  • SNSenegal1 in 727

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

≈1.9K ●

across 8 countries

Sources
159 ●

13K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 73K ◐

France

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.

Where Seydou is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SN Senegal#66927485 rec.—17Seydou42
FR France—9256.2K rec.1 in 73K925Seydou159
ML Mali#15868832 rec.—6Seydou32
CI Côte d’Ivoire#608851922 rec.—2.3KSeydou32
ES Spain—610△174 rec.1 in 82K610Seydou27
BF Burkina Faso#75362371 rec.——Seydou19
US United States—3082K rec.1 in 1.1M308Seydou84
IT Italy—182213 rec.—4Seydou16
BE Belgium—117243 rec.—4Seydou21
CA Canada—10395 rec.—1Seydou33
DE Germany—87110 rec.——Seydou36
DZ Algeria—50156 rec.—listedSeydou6

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French13K55%
  • French (Côte d’Ivoire)6.5K26%
  • Spanish1.6K7%
  • English8363%
  • Catalan6102%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French13,31555%
French (Côte d’Ivoire)6,45326%
Spanish1,6247%
English8363%
Catalan6102%

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◐

Seydou is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name12K records spelled Seydou2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Séydou

  • Spanish given name1.8K records spelled Seydou3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Senegal, Mali

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Séydou

  • Russian surname40 records spelled Seydou10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ghana, Kazakhstan, United States, Senegal

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Seidu, Сейду, Seydoux, Сеиду

40 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.

Over time●

02.557.51020002005201020152020202510 · 2005

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Seydou in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 2000–2025
Yearrecords
20006
20015
20039
20045
200510
200710
20098
20107
20117
20125
20149
20168
20176
20208
20225
20257

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 16 years between 2000–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050Seydou Keita, b. 1921Alpha Blondy, b. 1953Seydou Bouda, b. 1958Seydou Keita, b. 1980Seydou Koné, b. 1983Seydou Junior Haidara, b. 1989Seydou Gbane, b. 1992Seydou Fofana, b. 1993Seydou Sano, b. 2004Seydou Fini, b. 2006

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 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Seydou
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—2.3K#258
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024925#913
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—610#4,000
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—499#2,117
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020308#28,745
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—22#23,464
SN SenegalDGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024)202417#54
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#40,487
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#39,236
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202014—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—14#101,339
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201914—

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 · 77 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Seydou?
We estimate roughly 1.9 thousand people bear Seydou (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Seydou have the most bearers?
Seydou is most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is most often spelled seydou.
How common is Seydou compared with other names?
In Senegal, Seydou is the 66th most common given name of 3,508 given names recorded there.
Is Seydou a male or female name?
Seydou 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.
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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, “Seydou” — the 66th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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