Names of Gabon GA

The names that most distinguish Gabon from the rest of the world are Ndong, Koumba and Nguema; in our record corpus the commonest names held in Gabon are James and Ndong.

Written in French.

Population
2.2M
Official registers
4
Name forms recorded
2.9K
BBuilt from 4 official registers, 2,880 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 Gabon are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Gabon included.

How names work in Gabon

Names in Gabon follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

The most common names in Gabon

Characteristic of Gabon

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

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

Scripts & spelling

Ndongsurname●
Koumbasurname●
Nguemasurname●
Mbasurname●
Mboumbasurname●
The best-attested names in Gabon, 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.

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