Souleymane
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Souleymane is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Burkina Faso it is the 10th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and French (Côte d’Ivoire), written in the Latin script.
- SNSenegal1 in 236◐
- MLMali1 in 930
- CICôte d’Ivoire1 in 3.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈8.0K ●
- Sources
- 207 ●
- 1 in 12K ◐
across 8 countries
30K 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.
Attested across 14 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 | — | 5,650 | 15K rec. | 1 in 12K | 5.7K | Souleymane | 207 |
| SN Senegal | #24 | 2,850 | 1K rec. | — | 29 | Souleymane | 51 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #355 | 1,815 | 1.9K rec. | — | 2.9K | Souleymane | 32 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,530△ | 704 rec. | 1 in 33K | 1.5K | Souleymane | 46 |
| ML Mali | #13 | 1,006 | 974 rec. | — | 21 | Souleymane | 34 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #10 | 940 | 1K rec. | — | — | Souleymane | 24 |
| US United States | — | 790 | 5.9K rec. | 1 in 421K | 790 | Souleymane | 158 |
| BE Belgium | — | 471 | 481 rec. | — | 14 | Souleymane | 25 |
| IT Italy | — | 303 | 335 rec. | — | 7 | Souleymane | 31 |
| DE Germany | — | 201 | 190 rec. | — | 1 | Souleymane | 40 |
| GN Guinea | #15 | 172 | 468 rec. | — | 7 | Souleymane | 23 |
| CA Canada | — | 167 | 159 rec. | — | 1 | Souleymane | 39 |
Roughly 5.7K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 12K). 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●
- French48K64%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)14K19%
- Spanish4.5K6%
- English2.2K3%
- Catalan1.5K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 47,600 | 64% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 14,483 | 19% |
| Spanish | 4,511 | 6% |
| English | 2,153 | 3% |
| Catalan | 1,531 | 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 | 7 |
| 1998 | 10 |
| 1999 | 7 |
| 2000 | 12 |
| 2001 | 12 |
| 2002 | 15 |
| 2003 | 18 |
| 2004 | 11 |
| 2005 | 11 |
| 2006 | 19 |
| 2007 | 25 |
| 2008 | 15 |
| 2009 | 20 |
| 2010 | 20 |
| 2011 | 18 |
| 2012 | 17 |
| 2013 | 12 |
| 2014 | 16 |
| 2015 | 10 |
| 2016 | 14 |
| 2017 | 17 |
| 2018 | 13 |
| 2019 | 20 |
| 2020 | 15 |
| 2021 | 13 |
| 2022 | 16 |
| 2023 | 21 |
| 2024 | 23 |
| 2025 | 20 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 29 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●
- Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malikb. 675SAnot in their usual nameUmayyad caliph
- Solomana Kanteb. 1922GNnot in their usual nameGuinean writer
- Souleymane Cisséb. 1940MLMalian film director (1940–2025)
- Souleymane Ndéné Ndiayeb. 1958SNSenegalese politician
- Souleyman Sanéb. 1961SNnot in their usual nameSenegalese footballer
- Souleymane Diawarab. 1978SNSenegalese and French footballer
- Souleymane Camarab. 1982SNSenegalese and French footballer
- Souleymane Diamouteneb. 1983MLMalian footballer
- Sol Bambab. 1985FRnot in their usual namefootball player and manager (1985–2024)
- Jordan Adeotib. 1989FRnot in their usual nameBeninese and French footballer
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 41 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 111 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Souleymane?
- We estimate roughly 8.0 thousand people bear Souleymane (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Souleymane have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 5.7 thousand people bear Souleymane in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled souleymane.
- How common is Souleymane compared with other names?
- In Burkina Faso, Souleymane is the 10th most common given name of 3,081 given names recorded there.
- Is Souleymane a male or female name?
- Souleymane 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
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, “Souleymane” — the 10th most common given name in Burkina Faso. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.