Names of Côte d’Ivoire CI

The names that most distinguish Côte d’Ivoire from the rest of the world are Kone, Kouassi and Kouadio; in our record corpus the commonest names held in Côte d’Ivoire are Marie and Kone.

Written in French.

Population
27M
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
6.3K
BBuilt from 1 official register, 6,273 name forms in our corpus.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

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Where the names most characteristic of Côte d’Ivoire are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Côte d’Ivoire included.

How names work in Côte d’Ivoire

3 naming traditions are in use in Côte d’Ivoire, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Côte d’Ivoire

Characteristic of Côte d’Ivoire

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Côte d’Ivoire holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

AngeJuniorMohamedAbdoulIbrahimEmmanuelFranckAdamaMoussaMamadouAboubacarSouleymaneAbdoulayeOumarCheickHamedMariamDaoudaWilfriedHermannChristYayaOusmaneYvesAzizKaderCharlesYannGuyRomaricSeydouAlassaneYoussoufYannickDesireUlrichSekouJamesFatoumataAboubakarChrisLamineMoustaphaArmelAristideSalifElieIbrahimaBenAminataArounaFabriceFatimBakaryWillyHervéEmmanuellaArnaudElvisAnicet
Sized by how much of the difference between Côte d’Ivoire's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

Konesurname●
Kouassisurname●
Kouadiosurname●
Kouamesurname●
Coulibalysurname●
The best-attested names in Côte d’Ivoire, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequenciesnot a population count

    Emc2 (undisclosed operator). Counts: not recorded. surname. 2,976 forms. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    Top 3,000 Ivorian SURNAMES (noms) with per-name bearer counts, ranked, scraped from the server-side-rendered paginated list (pages 0-59, 50 names/page) at /nom-prenoms-civ/nom. We ingest the page-level "Tout age" (all-ages) national aggregate. The site additionally exposes per-surname age-band (25-30, 30-35, 35-40, 40-50, 50-70, 70+ ans) and per-commune breakdowns on detail pages (/nom-prenoms-civ/nom/{rank}); those are NOT ingested here. SURNAMES ONLY: despite the site title "Nom et Prénoms" and a "Prénoms" menu entry, that menu item points at the same /nom path and the obvious /prenom path 404s — there is no separate given-names dataset. No XHR/JSON API; the only scripts are Google AdSense, so a static fetch + regex parse suffices. PROVENANCE UNVERIFIED: the underlying data is undisclosed — site footer reads "Copyright ©2015 Emc2 | Administration"; it is a .ci domain but is NOT attributed to any Ivorian government body and is not government-traceable. Sanity: sum of the listed top-3,000 counts = 4,853,957 bearers (~16.7% of the ~29M population); plausible as the head of the surname distribution since the published tail stops at 133 bearers (rank 3,000) and rarer surnames are not listed. Tier 4, status normalized. Scraper scripts/scrape_ci_nomprenoms.py, raw HTML cached in raw/CI/.

    Last verified 2026-05-30.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

Is there one naming system in Côte d’Ivoire?
No — 3 are described on this page (Akan, Bambara and Mandinka, French), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Côte d’Ivoire”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/CI (data snapshot 2026-09-12).