Aïssata

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a female given name from Arabic, widely used in Islamic West Africa

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/aisata/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Aïssata is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 404K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 157K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 1.2M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

824 people, 2020

Sources
108 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 157K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Aissata in US United States, ES Spain, NL Netherlands and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a female given name from Arabic, widely used in Islamic West Africa

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Aïssata counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Aïssata is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—8241 in 404K823Aissata108
ES Spain—3181 in 157K318Aissata6
NL Netherlands—151 in 1.2M15Aissata5
PL Poland—51 in 7.7M5——
CZ Czechia—21 in 5.4M2——
LV Latvia—11 in 1.9M1——
MR Mauritania#138———Aissata4

824 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Aïssata is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Aissata

  • French given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Senegal, Belgium

    Languages: French, Arabic, Chinese

    Also written Aissata, Aîssata, Åïssåtå

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Aissata

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Mexico, Mali

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Aissata, Aissatá

  • French (Guinea) given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Guinea, Senegal

    Also written Aissata, Aîssata

  • French (Burkina Faso) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Burkina Faso

    Also written Aissata

6 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

192019401960198020002020Aïssata Kane, b. 1938Aïssata Moumouni, b. 1939Aissata Tall Sall, b. 1957Aïssata Soulama, b. 1979Aïssata Coulibaly, b. 1985Aïssata Lam, b. 1986Aissata Maiga, b. 1992Aissata Traore, b. 1997Aissata Denn Conte, b. 2001

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalBonjour Aïssata,Hi Aïssata, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Aïssata
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—12#25,977
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—6#30,678

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Aïssata mean, and where does it come from?
a female given name from Arabic, widely used in Islamic West Africa Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Aïssata?
A machine transcription gives /aisata/ (IPA) for French.
Is Aïssata a male or female name?
Aïssata is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Aïssata?
In the etymology graph, Aïcha is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Aïssata have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 824 people named Aïssata, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aissata.
Where is Aïssata most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aïssata is densest in Spain — about 1 in 157 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Aïssata?
In the United States, the national register counted 824 people named Aïssata in 2020, about 1 in 404 thousand residents.
How common is Aïssata compared with other names?
In Mauritania, Aïssata is the 138th most common given name of 605 given names recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/a%C3%AFssata

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aïssata” — the 138th most common given name in Mauritania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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