Names of Sudan SD

The names that most distinguish Sudan from the rest of the world are ادم, الطيب and ود; in our record corpus the commonest names held in Sudan are ادم and Ahmed.

Written in Arabic, English.

Population
46M
Official registers
3
Name forms recorded
7.6K
BBuilt from 3 official registers, 7,632 name forms in our corpus, 6 cited works.

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

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

How names work in Sudan

Names in Sudan 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 Sudan

Characteristic of Sudan

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

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

Scripts & spelling

Names in Sudan are written in Latin (89%) and Arabic (11%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

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The best-attested names in Sudan, 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

  • Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family namesnot a population count

    Wikidata / Wikimedia Foundation. Counts: notable people. given and surname. 290 forms. Licence: CC0.

    What we know about this register

    Top-N given names + surnames among Wikidata persons with P27=Q1049. Snapshot 2026-05-19. N given: 292, N surnames: 180. Heavy notability bias — diaspora/leadership over-represented; use as low-confidence enrichment only.

    Last verified 2026-05-19.

  • This page discusses the cultural significance and frequency of Sudanese names, published by Alnilin.2020not a population count

    www.alnilin.com. Counts: not recorded. given. 5 forms. 2020. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. Alnilin (Sudanese news) article on names; 6-row parquet has round counts (100/50/30/20/15) and includes قرشي (Qurashi — a tribal surname, not a given name). Heuristic extraction, not statistical frequency data.

    Last verified 2026-05-12.

  • A detailed exploration of the cultural significance and frequencies of traditional Sudanese names, published on Sudanile2023not a population count

    sudanile.com. Counts: not recorded. given. 5 forms. 2023. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. Sudanile (Sudanese cultural site) article on traditional name meanings; 10-row parquet has tiny counts (10, 8, 6, 5) for a country with ~800K births/year — editorial cultural anecdote list, not statistical frequency data.

    Last verified 2026-05-12.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

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 Sudan”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/SD (data snapshot 2026-09-12).