Konaté

surname · Latin script

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

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

Konaté is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country. In Mali it is the 15th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Fula Konaté.

rarermore common
  • MLMali≈1 in 750(inferred from the name graph)
  • CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 283
  • GNGuinea≈1 in 370

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)

≈97,000 people, est.

Sources
217 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 283 (inferred from the name graph)

Côte d’Ivoire, est.

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 Konate in CI Côte d’Ivoire, ES Spain, ML Mali and 2 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)

Borrowed from Fula Konaté.

Sources 1

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Konaté 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 Konaté is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CI Côte d’Ivoire#360≈97,000 est.≈1 in 28342KKonate29
GN Guinea—≈34,000 est.≈1 in 3702—15
BF Burkina Faso#49≈30,000 est.≈1 in 684—Konate16
ML Mali#15≈26,000 est.≈1 in 75019Konate39
SN Senegal#73≈25,000 est.≈1 in 63714Konate26
ES Spain—1,4941 in 33K1.5KKonate31

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: nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026. 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)

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

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Konate, Konatè

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Konate, Konate', Konatè, Koñate

  • French (Burkina Faso) surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Burkina Faso

    Also written Konate, Konatè

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Konate

  • French (Guinea) surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Guinea

    Also written Konate

  • Korean surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Konate, Konatė, 코나테

20 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)

19401960198020002020Moussa Konaté, b. 1951Abdoulaye Konaté, b. 1953Sékouba Konaté, b. 1964Moussa Konaté, b. 1978Pape Moussa Konaté, b. 1993Mory Konaté, b. 1993Pa Konate, b. 1994Mohamed Konaté, b. 1997Ibrahima Konaté, b. 1999Karim Konaté, b. 2004

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)

FormalMonsieur,Dear Mr Konaté, (English)
InformalBonjour Konaté,Hi Konaté, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Konaté
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ML MaliWikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names—19#17
GN GuineaPatronymes de Guinée — Fodé Tass Sylla surname inventory (432 noms de famille)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Konaté mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Fula Konaté. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Konaté?
A machine transcription gives /kɔnate/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Konaté have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 97 thousand people named Konaté in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled konate.
How common is the name Konaté?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,494 people named Konaté, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
How common is Konaté compared with other names?
In Côte d’Ivoire, Konaté is the 360th most common surname of 18,411 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Konaté” — the 360th most common surname in Côte d’Ivoire. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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