Demba
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dmba/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Demba is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common given name.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 353(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 20K
- GMGambia≈1 in 790
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
- 191 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 353 (inferred from the name graph)
≈45,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Plg. lenk. Dę~ bowski (SSNO I 473; S. Rospond, 1967, p. 188)
Sources 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Demba 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 | #41 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 353 | 49 | Demba | 51 |
| ML Mali | #27 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 2 | Demba | 26 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 1.7K | Demba | 191 |
| GM Gambia | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 790 | #17 | — | 1 |
| GN Guinea | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 2 | — | 8 |
| MR Mauritania | #8 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Demba | 13 |
| ES Spain | — | 991 | 1 in 50K | 991 | Demba | 33 |
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 prénoms (1900–2024); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Demba is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kr, s. a large kind of gourd, sometimes four feet in diameter. When dry and cut into halves, they are used as tubs or pails
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
In Icelandic, shower (of rain)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, bird's-eye view
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, vol d'oiseaux
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, turban
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Demba Traoréb. 1972MLMalinese politician
- Demba Diagouragab. 1978FRfootballer
- Demba Touréb. 1984SNSenegalese footballer
- Demba Bab. 1985FRSenegalese-French footballer (born 1985)
- Papiss Cisséb. 1985SNnot in their usual nameSenegalese association football player (born 1985)
- Demba Barryb. 1987MLMalian footballer
- Papa Demba Camarab. 1993SNSenegalese footballer
- Demba Diawarab. 1997SNSenegalese imam and village leader
- Demba Thiamb. 1998SNSenegalese footballer
- Demba Bambab. 1998FRFrench rugby union player (1998-)
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 44 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.7K | #698 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 991 | #2,867 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 833 | #1,438 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 49 | #30 |
| GN Guinea | DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026 | 2026 | 2 | #14 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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
- Is Demba a male or female name?
- Demba 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.
- How do you pronounce Demba?
- A machine transcription gives /dmba/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Demba have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 45 thousand people named Demba in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled demba.
- How common is the name Demba?
- In Spain, the national register counted 991 people named Demba, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.
- How common is Demba compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Demba is the 41st most common given name of 3,375 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Demba?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dembaThe 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, “Demba” — the 41st most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.