Sékou

given name · Latin script

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

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

Sékou is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guinea than in any other country. In Mali it is the 12th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 261K
  • GNGuinea≈1 in 209

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.

Guinea (inferred from the name graph)

≈60,000 people, est.

Sources
182 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 209 (inferred from the name graph)

Guinea, 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 Sekou in FR France, CI Côte d’Ivoire, US United States 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

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

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sékou 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 Sékou is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GN Guinea#136≈60,000 est.≈1 in 2093Sékou22
CI Côte d’Ivoire—≈31,000 est.≈1 in 8871.9KSekou20
ML Mali#12≈19,000 est.≈1 in 1K13Sekou33
SN Senegal#172≈6,500 est.≈1 in 2.4K2Sekou22
FR France—≈3,500 est.≈1 in 19K1.8KSekou182
US United States—1,2731 in 261K1.3KSekou152
GA Gabon—≈180 est.≈1 in 13K1—8

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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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)

Sékou is also recorded as 5 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 Sekou

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

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Sekou

  • French (Guinea) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Guinea

    Also written Sekou

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sekou, Sékoû

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

    Most recorded in Burkina Faso

    Also written Sekou

12 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)

192019401960198020002020Ahmed Sékou Touré, b. 1922Sékou Touré, b. 1934Sékou Berthé, b. 1977Sekou Cissé, b. 1985Sékou Sanogo, b. 1989Sekou Oliseh, b. 1990Sekou Gassama, b. 1995Sekou Koita, b. 1999Sekou Doumbouya, b. 2000Sékou Mara, b. 2002

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 Sékou,Hi Sékou, (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 6 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Sékou
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
GN GuineaDGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 202620261#15

Reference works 1

  • 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

How do you pronounce Sékou?
A machine transcription gives /seku/ (IPA) for French.
Is Sékou a male or female name?
Sékou is a male 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.
In which country does Sékou have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 60 thousand people named Sékou in Guinea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sékou.
How common is the name Sékou?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,273 people named Sékou in 2020, about 1 in 261 thousand residents.
How common is Sékou compared with other names?
In Guinea, Sékou is the 136th most common given name of 523 given names recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A9kou

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, “Sékou” — the 136th most common given name in Guinea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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