Names of Guinea GN

The names that most distinguish Guinea from the rest of the world are Mamadou, Diallo and Camara.

Written in French.

Population
13M
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
274
BBuilt from 1 official register, 274 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 Guinea are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Guinea included.

How names work in Guinea

3 naming traditions are in use in Guinea, 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 Guinea

Characteristic of Guinea

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

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

Scripts & spelling

Diallosurname●
Mamadougiven name●
Camarasurname●
Bahsurname●
Fatoumatagiven name●
The best-attested names in Guinea, 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

  • DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 20262026not a population count

    Direction Generale des Elections (DGE). Counts: election candidates. given and surname. 266 forms. 2026. Licence: Open government data.

    What we know about this register

    Communal 2026 candidate list, zone speciale de Conakry; OCR-extracted (minor noise); 538 candidates -> 524 name rows (410 given, 114 surname); column PRENOMS ET NOM (given..surname), GENRE H/F->M/F. CHECKED 2026-08-06: the actual live INS site is stat-guinee.org (ins.gov.gn does not resolve) — no name tool found there. DGE separately launched a PN-RAVEC verification platform in Aug 2025 at verification.dge.gov.gn (confirmed live, HTTP 200, Flutter app); per press coverage (guinee360.com) it is keyed by the 32-character alphanumeric code on the citizen's own enrollment receipt (or its QR code), not by name — a stricter, receipt-code-only variant that does NOT meet the per-name lookup bar (contrast ci-cei-electoral-roll, which is name-searchable), so it is documented here rather than catalogued as a new known source. ceni.org.gn resolves in DNS but every connection attempt failed this session, unconfirmed. No live per-name existence form found for Guinea beyond what's already catalogued here.

    Last verified 2026-07-02.

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 Guinea?
No — 3 are described on this page (Fulani, Bambara and Mandinka, French), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

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