Touré

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a surname from Soninke

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Touré is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Côte d’Ivoire it is the 28th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 18K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 58K
  • BEBelgium1 in 78K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

2,719 people

Sources
42 (measured from records)

Derived

1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Toure in CI Côte d’Ivoire.

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)

a surname from Soninke

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Touré 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 Touré is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain—2,7191 in 18K2.7K——
US United States—2,1981 in 151K3.5K——
BE Belgium—1501 in 78K765——
CH Switzerland—1461 in 58K146——
SE Sweden—731 in 140K73——
NO Norway—521 in 105K52——
FI Finland—491 in 114K49——
CI Côte d’Ivoire#28——62KToure42

2,719 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

Touré is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname10 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Toure, Toure', Tour'E, Tourè, Tourē

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Toure, Tourè

  • French (Guinea) surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Guinea, Senegal

    Also written Toure

37 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)

18001850190019502000Samory Touré, b. 1830Ahmed Sékou Touré, b. 1922Ali Farka Touré, b. 1939Amadou Toumani Touré, b. 1948Aminata Touré, b. 1962Kolo Touré, b. 1981Yaya Touré, b. 1983Ibrahim Touré, b. 1985Assimiou Touré, b. 1988Fodé Ballo-Touré, b. 1997

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 15 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Touré
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—236#7,455
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024142#8,314
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200880#18,611
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—26#21,046

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Touré mean, and where does it come from?
a surname from Soninke Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Touré have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Touré, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Touré most common?
Touré is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 18 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Touré?
In Spain, the national register counted 2,719 people named Touré, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
How common is Touré compared with other names?
In Côte d’Ivoire, Touré is the 28th most common surname of 18,411 surnames recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tour%C3%A9

The 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, “Touré” — the 28th most common surname in Côte d’Ivoire. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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