Names of South Sudan SS

Names in South Sudan are recorded in English and Arabic, with a given name followed by an inherited family name.

Written in English, Arabic.

Population
11M
Official registers
4
Name forms recorded
312
BBuilt from 4 official registers, 312 name forms in our corpus, 11 cited works.

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

How names work in South Sudan

2 naming traditions are in use in South Sudan, 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 South Sudan

Scripts & spelling

Havensurname●
Borahsurname●
Bortonsurname●
Dengsurname●
Brinkssurname●
The best-attested names in South 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

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.

Questions

Is there one naming system in South Sudan?
No — 2 are described on this page (Dinka and Nuer, Arabic), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

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