Sidya
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sidya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Guinea/Guinea-Bissau people: related to Malinke.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 883K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1M
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.
- Senegal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈790 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Guinea/Guinea-Bissau people: related to Malinke
Sources 1
- African Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sidya 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 | #571 | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Sidya | 14 |
| FR France | — | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 883K | — | Sidya | 70 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 7.1M | 20 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 29 | 1 in 1.7M | 29 | Sidya | 2 |
| US United States | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 59M | — | Sidya | 4 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 5 | 1 in 1M | 5 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Sidya | 5 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sidya Touréb. 1945GNPrime Minister of Guinea
- Sidya Ould El HadjMRMauritanian diplomat
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 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 29 | #43,371 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 27 | #21,421 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 20 | #60,036 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 5 | #13,571 |
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
- What does the name Sidya mean?
- Recorded meaning: Guinea/Guinea-Bissau people: related to Malinke
- Is Sidya a male or female name?
- Sidya 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 Sidya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 792 people named Sidya in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sidya.
- How common is the name Sidya?
- In Spain, the national register counted 29 people named Sidya, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Sidya compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Sidya is the 571st most common given name of 3,375 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sidyaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sidya” — the 571st most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.