Idrissa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Idrissa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country, where it is the 46th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Senegalese and Gambian: 'immortal'.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 380(inferred from the name graph)
- BFBurkina Faso≈1 in 790
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 1.7K
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
- 178 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 380 (inferred from the name graph)
≈41,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Senegalese and Gambian: 'immortal'.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Idrissa 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 | #46 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 380 | 13 | Idrissa | 48 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #111 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 790 | — | Idrissa | 17 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 866 | Idrissa | 21 |
| ML Mali | #36 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 8 | Idrissa | 24 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 2 | Idrissa | 17 |
| SL Sierra Leone | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 19 | — | 15 |
| ES Spain | — | 620 | 1 in 81K | 620 | Idrissa | 28 |
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); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; NEC/ECSL — 2018 Local Council, Chairperson and Mayor nominated candidates. 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)
Idrissa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Immortal.
as a nameThe African book of names
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)
- Idrissa Traoréb. 1943BFsoccer coach from Burkina Faso
- Idrissa Ouédraogob. 1954BFBurkinabe film director, screenwriter and producer (1954–2018)
- Abdoulaye Idrissa Maïgab. 1958MLPrime Minister of Mali
- Idrissa Seckb. 1959SNSenegalese politician
- Idris Elbab. 1972GBnot in their usual nameBritish actor
- Idrissa Sanoub. 1977BFathletics competitor
- Idrissa Coulibalyb. 1987MLMalian footballer
- Idrissa Gueyeb. 1989SNSenegalese association football player
- Idrissa Syllab. 1990GNGuinean association football player (1990-)
- Idrissa Touréb. 1998DEGerman association football player
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 48 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 620 | #3,956 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 535 | #1,996 |
| SL Sierra Leone | NEC/ECSL — 2018 Local Council, Chairperson and Mayor nominated candidates | 2018 | 19 | #27 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 13 | #58 |
| ML Mali | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 8 | #29 |
| SL Sierra Leone | NEC/ECSL — 2012 Councillor and Ordinary-MP/PCMP results tables | 2012 | 3 | #28 |
| SL Sierra Leone | NEC/ECSL — 2012 parliamentary and Local Council nominated candidates | 2012 | 3 | #20 |
| TZ Tanzania | INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results | 2020 | 2 | #28 |
| SL Sierra Leone | NEC/ECSL — 2018 parliamentary candidate list (given names only) | 2018 | 1 | #7 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Idrissa mean, and where does it come from?
- Senegalese and Gambian: 'immortal'. Recorded by African Names.
- Is Idrissa a male or female name?
- Idrissa 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.
- What are other forms of the name Idrissa?
- In the etymology graph, Driss and Idriss are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Idrissa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Idrissa in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled idrissa.
- How common is the name Idrissa?
- In Spain, the national register counted 620 people named Idrissa, about 1 in 81 thousand residents.
- How common is Idrissa compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Idrissa is the 46th most common given name of 3,375 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/idrissaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Idrissa” — the 46th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.