Traore

surname · French · Latin script

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

Traore is a surname, most frequently recorded in Côte d’Ivoire, where it is the 13th most common surname. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Mandingo Tarawele.

rarermore common
  • CICôte d’Ivoire1 in 112◐
  • MLMali1 in 226
  • SNSenegal1 in 337

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

≈11K ●

across 13 countries

Sources
278 ●

91K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 9.6K ◐

Spain

Meaning & origin●

From Mandingo Tarawele.

Sources 1

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Traore is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CI Côte d’Ivoire#13167,1874.3K rec.—83KTraore45
ES Spain—5,212△1.6K rec.1 in 9.6K5.2KTraore51
ML Mali#23,6824.6K rec.—139Traore49
FR France#1462,75265K rec.1 in 25K2.8KTraore278
US United States—1,9736.5K rec.1 in 169K3.1KTraore206
SN Senegal#321,805634 rec.—27Traore35
BF Burkina Faso#89101.6K rec.—listedTraore36
IT Italy—738899 rec.——Traore35
DZ Algeria#915308760 rec.—listedTraore6
CH Switzerland—187△30 rec.1 in 45K187—17
BE Belgium—1511K rec.1 in 78K730Traore36
SA Saudi Arabia—12436 rec.——Traore11

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Languages●

  • French278K60%
  • English90K19%
  • French (Côte d’Ivoire)66K14%
  • Spanish15K3%
  • Catalan5.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French277,62660%
English90,09219%
French (Côte d’Ivoire)66,03614%
Spanish14,6923%
Catalan5,2121%

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◐

Traore is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname95K records spelled Traore9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire, United States, Belgium, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Traoré, Traorė, Traorè, Ťřăőre

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) surname82K records spelled Traore4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Traoré, Traorè, Träörë

  • Catalan surname5.3K records spelled Traore2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written Traoré

  • a separate surname771 records spelled Traore3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mali, Morocco, Kenya

    Also written Traoré, Traorè

  • French (Burkina Faso) surname739 records spelled Traore3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mali

    Also written Traoré, Traorè

53 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●

01K2K3K19201940196019802.9K · 1981

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Traore in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1911–1991
Yearrecords
19111
19417
195135
1961142
1971864
19812,873
19912,752

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 7 years between 1911–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Diarra Traoré, b. 1935Dioncounda Traoré, b. 1942Honoré Traoré, b. 1957Djimi Traoré, b. 1980Ismaël Traoré, b. 1986Ibrahim Traoré, b. 1988Armand Traoré, b. 1989Lacina Traoré, b. 1990Bertrand Traoré, b. 1995Adama Traoré, b. 1996

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 36 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Traore
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—83K#12
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—5.2K#1,022
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—5.2K#1,022
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.1K#9,979
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19812.9K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19912.8K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102K#14,979
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971864—
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—730#1,948
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000495#41,448
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024187#6,644
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008151#10,888

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 55 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Traore?
We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Traore (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Traore have the most bearers?
Traore is most frequently recorded in Côte d’Ivoire, where it is most often spelled traore.
How common is Traore compared with other names?
In Côte d’Ivoire, Traore is the 13th most common surname of 19,557 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Traore mean?
Recorded meaning: From Mandingo Tarawele.
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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, “Traore” — the 13th most common surname in Côte d’Ivoire. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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