Souaré

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: DGE, 2026

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

Souaré is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guinea than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common surname.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GNGuinea≈1 in 337
  • SNSenegal≈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.

Guinea (inferred from the name graph)

≈37,000 people, est.

Record sources
162 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 337 (inferred from the name graph)

Guinea, 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 Souare in FR France, CI Côte d’Ivoire, SN Senegal and 3 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 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Souaré 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 Souaré is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GN Guinea#41≈37,000 est.≈1 in 3373Souare16
SN Senegal#107≈14,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K10Souare23
CI Côte d’Ivoire—≈7,200 est.≈1 in 3.8K757Souare8
FR France—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 40K251Souare162
ML Mali#390≈960 est.≈1 in 20K—Souare7
ES Spain—2671 in 187K267Souare20

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); 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); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Souaré is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, Algeria, Senegal, Kuwait

    Also written Souare, Souàre

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Souare

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Souare

  • French (Guinea) surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Guinea

    Also written Souare

  • Thai surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Laos

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Suare, ซัวร์, ซ์วร, ซัวร, Souare

  • Spanish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States

    Also written Souare

  • Swedish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden

    Languages: Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Souare

4 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)
19401960198020002020Ahmed Tidiane Souaré, b. 1951Ibrahima Sory Souaré, b. 1982Pape Souaré, b. 1990Cheick Souaré, 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)
FormalMonsieur,Dear Mr Souaré, (English)
InformalBonjour Souaré,Hi Souaré, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Souaré
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
GN GuineaDGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 202620261#17
GN GuineaPatronymes de Guinée — Fodé Tass Sylla surname inventory (432 noms de famille)———

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 Souaré?
A machine transcription gives /suaʁe/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Souaré have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Souaré in Guinea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled souare.
How common is the name Souaré?
In Spain, the national register counted 267 people named Souaré, about 1 in 187 thousand residents.
How common is Souaré compared with other names?
In Guinea, Souaré is the 41st most common surname of 427 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Souaré” — the 41st most common surname in Guinea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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