Names of Cameroon CM

The names that most distinguish Cameroon from the rest of the world are Ngo, Kengne and Fotso; in our record corpus the commonest names held in Cameroon are Christelle and Ngo.

Written in French, English.

Population
28M
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
9.3K
BBuilt from 1 official register, 9,265 name forms in our corpus.

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

fewerlarger share
Where the names most characteristic of Cameroon are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Cameroon included.

How names work in Cameroon

2 naming traditions are in use in Cameroon, 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 Cameroon

Characteristic of Cameroon

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Cameroon 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.

ChristelleAlainFranckOumarouPierreFloreYannickSandrineAboubakarHerveGaelleMireilleFabriceGuyMichelMohamadouMartialCarineThierryBertrandLaureBriceYvesMoussaBlaiseCyrilleClaudeEmmanuelNadegeFrançoisJulesJacquesAbdoulArmelBoubaAchilleSylvieCedricSolangeArmandKevineDesireLoicYolandeEdwigeAngeArnaudOusmanouMartheAbdoulayeJosianePascalAbdouChantalNadineMoustaphaYvanAristideJulienne
Sized by how much of the difference between Cameroon's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

Ngosurname●
Christellegiven name●
Pierregiven name●
Alaingiven name●
Franckgiven name●
The best-attested names in Cameroon, 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

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 Cameroon?
No — 2 are described on this page (French, British), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Cameroon”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/CM (data snapshot 2026-09-12).