N'Guessan

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

N'Guessan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 74K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 2.7M
  • CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 312

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)

≈88,000 people, est.

Sources
136 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 312 (inferred from the name graph)

Côte d’Ivoire, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nguessan in FR France, US United States, ML Mali and 3 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

N'Guessan 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 N'Guessan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CI Côte d’Ivoire#829≈88,000 est.≈1 in 31295KN'Guessan31
ML Mali#115≈3,000 est.≈1 in 6.6K—Nguessan3
FR France—≈910 est.≈1 in 74K111Nguessan136
US United States—1221 in 2.7M276Nguessan90
IT Italy—≈100 est.≈1 in 604K—Nguessan10
TN Tunisia—≈60 est.≈1 in 196K—Nguessan5
CH Switzerland—491 in 172K49Nguessan7

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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

N'Guessan is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Nguessan, N’Guessan, N-Guessan, N''Guessan, N’Guéssan

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Nguessan, N’Guessan, N'Guéssan

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Canada

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Nguessan, N’Guessan

  • Chinese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Nguessan, N’Guessan

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Nguessan

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Kuwait, Morocco

    Also written Nguessan

  • Danish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark

    Also written Nguessan

  • Indonesian name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Nguessan

  • Swahili name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Nguessan

23 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)

19401960198020002020Jérémie Kouadio, b. 1950Elsa N'Guessan, b. 1984Ange N'Guessan, b. 1990Timothey N'Guessan, b. 1992Atiwa Desy-Laurene N'Guessan, b. 1994Joseph N'Guessan, b. 1995N'Guessan David Assouman, b. 1996Allathin Shella N'Guessan, b. 1996Ange N'Guessan, b. 2003Djylian N'Guessan, b. 2008

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens

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

Is N'Guessan a male or female name?
N'Guessan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does N'Guessan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 88 thousand people named N'Guessan in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled N'Guessan.
How common is the name N'Guessan?
In the United States, the national register counted 122 people named N'Guessan in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
How common is N'Guessan compared with other names?
In Côte d’Ivoire, N'Guessan is the 829th 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, “N'Guessan” — the 829th most common surname in Côte d’Ivoire. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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