Séne
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Séne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Old French sene.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 140(inferred from the name graph)
- GAGabon≈1 in 15K
- FRFrance≈1 in 19K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Senegal (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 235 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 143 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sene in FR France, SN Senegal, ES Spain.
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)From Old French sene.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Séne 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #17 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 143 | 104 | Sene | 60 |
| BR Brazil | — | 9,628 | 1 in 22K | 9.6K | — | 3 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 426 | Sene | 235 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,562 | 1 in 32K | 1.6K | Sene | 39 |
| IN India | — | 1,087 | 1 in 1.2M | 1.1K | — | 5 |
| ML Mali | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 1 | — | 3 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 1 | — | 4 |
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 noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Séne mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old French sene. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Séne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 129 thousand people named Séne in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sene.
- How common is the name Séne?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 9,628 people named Séne, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Séne compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Séne is the 17th most common surname of 3,622 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Séne?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A9neThe 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, “Séne” — the 17th most common surname in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.