Sokhna

given name · French · Latin script

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

Sokhna is a given name, most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is the 45th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • SNSenegal1 in 405◐
  • FRFrance1 in 140K
  • BEBelgium1 in 132K

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

≈1.0K ●

across 5 countries

Sources
143 ●

4.7K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 140K ◐

France

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Sokhna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SN Senegal#451,661562 rec.—59Sokhna40
FR France—4852.7K rec.1 in 140K485Sokhna143
US United States—343749 rec.1 in 970K343Sokhna79
IT Italy—216240 rec.—8Sokhna13
ES Spain—210△100 rec.1 in 238K210Sokhna21
CA Canada—12425 rec.—2Sokhna10
BE Belgium—117121 rec.—4Sokhna13
GB United Kingdom—4246 rec.——Sokhna12
DE Germany—3225 rec.—1Sokhna15
MX Mexico—2626 rec.——Sokhna1
TR Türkiye—1419 rec.——Sokhna3
IN India—1311 rec.——Sokhna3

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

Languages●

  • French6.4K67%
  • English93310%
  • Spanish7648%
  • Arabic2523%
  • Khmer2513%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French6,41767%
English93310%
Spanish7648%
Arabic2523%
Khmer2513%

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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Sokhna in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1993–2025
Yearrecords
19935
19975
19989
19999
200010
200110
200212
200310
20045
200511
20067
20079
200911
20109
201114
20127
201312
20147
20159
201614
20179
201810
201918
202014
20217
202213
202317
202423
202521

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 29 years between 1993–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19401960198020002020Sokhna Dieng Mbacké, b. 1950Sokhna Benga, b. 1967Sokhna Sy, b. 1988Sokhna Galle, b. 1994Sokhna Fatou Dia Sylla, b. 1997Sokhna Lacoste, b. 2000Sokhna Bintou Lo, b. 2000Sokhna Fall, b. 2003Sokhna Ngaya Ndiaye, b. 2004Sokhna Khadidiatou Sembene, b. 2005

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 23 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Sokhna
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024485#822
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020343#26,915
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—210#8,709
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—177#4,492
SN SenegalDGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024)202459#25
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—51#44,278
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—51#43,744
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198125—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202423—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202521—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201918—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199117—

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 · 79 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sokhna?
We estimate roughly 1.0 thousand people bear Sokhna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Sokhna have the most bearers?
Sokhna is most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is most often spelled sokhna.
How common is Sokhna compared with other names?
In Senegal, Sokhna is the 45th most common given name of 3,508 given names recorded there.
Is Sokhna a male or female name?
Sokhna 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.
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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, “Sokhna” — the 45th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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