Sosthene
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Origine grecque, « force indestructible »
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Sosthene is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. In Congo - Brazzaville it is the 93rd most common given name.
- CFCentral African Republic≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 13Kfew records
- BIBurundi≈1 in 14K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Central African Republic, 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 Sosthène in CD Congo - Kinshasa.
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)Origine grecque, « force indestructible ».
Cited for this meaning 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sosthene 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #590 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1 | Sosthène | 6 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Sosthene | 8 |
| BJ Benin | #383 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Sosthene | 12 |
| CF Central African Republic | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 3 | — | 4 |
| BF Burkina Faso | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Sosthene | 6 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #93 | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Sosthene | 6 |
| GA Gabon | #567 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 16 | Sosthene | 13 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
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: Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative); ANE — Liste provisoire des candidats (legislatives & regionales 2025); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)- Sosthene Moguenarab. 1989DEOlympic long jumper
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sosthene a male or female name?
- Sosthene is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: France (INSEE, 2010).
- What does the name Sosthene mean?
- Recorded meaning: Origine grecque, « force indestructible ».
- Which countries have the most people named Sosthene?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.5 thousand people named Sosthene in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sosthène. After it come Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Central African Republic and Burkina Faso; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sosthene?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Sosthene in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
- How common is Sosthene compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Sosthene is the 590th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sostheneThe 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, “Sosthene” — the 590th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.