Ibou
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ibu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ibou is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country, where it is the 61st most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 182K(inferred from the name graph)
- SNSenegal≈1 in 1K
- ITItaly≈1 in 144K
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
- 94 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ibou 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.
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: DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
- Ibou Diopb. 1979SNSenegalese Romance philologist, cultural scientist and author
- Ibou Tourayb. 1994GBEnglish association football player
- Ibou Cisséb. 1996FRFrench association football player
- Ibou Dianko Badjib. 2002SNSenegalese basketball player (born 2002)
- Ibou Sanéb. 2005SNSenegalese footballer
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 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 111 | #14,582 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 92 | #7,853 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 2 | #69 |
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 Ibou?
- A machine transcription gives /ibu/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Ibou a male or female name?
- Ibou 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.
- In which country does Ibou have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Ibou in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ibou.
- How common is the name Ibou?
- In Spain, the national register counted 111 people named Ibou, about 1 in 451 thousand residents.
- How common is Ibou compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Ibou is the 61st most common given name of 3,375 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ibou?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ibouThe 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, “Ibou” — the 61st most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.