Seydou
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sedu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Seydou is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country. In Mali it is the 17th most common given name.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 529(inferred from the name graph)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 887
- BFBurkina Faso≈1 in 1.1K
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)
- Sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 529 (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Seydou 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 887 | 2.3K | Seydou | 32 |
| SN Senegal | #65 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 529 | 17 | Seydou | 49 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #161 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Seydou | 17 |
| ML Mali | #17 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 6 | Seydou | 39 |
| GN Guinea | — | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 2 | — | 13 |
| ES Spain | — | 610 | 1 in 82K | 610 | Seydou | 28 |
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; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Seydou Keitab. 1921MLMalian photographer (1921–2001)
- Alpha Blondyb. 1953CInot in their usual nameIvorian reggae singer
- Seydou Boudab. 1958BFBurkinabé politician
- Seydou Keitab. 1980MLMalian footballer (born 1980)
- Seydou Konéb. 1983CIIvorian footballer
- Seydou Junior Haidarab. 1989CACanadian football player
- Seydou Gbaneb. 1992CIIvorian taekwondoin
- Seydou Fofanab. 1993MLMalian taekwondo practitioner (* 1993)
- Seydou Sanob. 2004SNSenegalese footballer (born 2004)
- Seydou Finib. 2006ITItalian footballer (born 2006)
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)
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 33 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 610 | #4,000 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 499 | #2,117 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 17 | #54 |
| ML Mali | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 6 | #42 |
| GN Guinea | DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026 | 2026 | 2 | #14 |
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 Seydou?
- A machine transcription gives /sedu/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Seydou a male or female name?
- Seydou 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.
- What are other forms of the name Seydou?
- In the etymology graph, Said, Sait and Suad are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Seydou have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Seydou in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled seydou.
- How common is the name Seydou?
- In Spain, the national register counted 610 people named Seydou, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
- How common is Seydou compared with other names?
- In Mali, Seydou is the 17th most common given name of 2,109 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Seydou?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/seydouThe 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, “Seydou” — the 17th most common given name in Mali. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.