Oumou
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/umu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Oumou is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guinea than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common given name.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 494(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 21K
- USUnited States1 in 341K
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)
- Sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 291 (inferred from the name graph)
≈43,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guinea, 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)
Oumou 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GN Guinea | #25 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 291 | 2 | Oumou | 20 |
| SN Senegal | #53 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 494 | 25 | Oumou | 39 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 160 | Oumou | 10 |
| ML Mali | #29 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 13 | Oumou | 27 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 2.9K | Oumou | 200 |
| US United States | — | 976 | 1 in 341K | 972 | Oumou | 135 |
| MR Mauritania | #88 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Oumou | 8 |
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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Oumou Soumaréb. 1950MLMalian politician
- Oumou Syb. 1952SNSenegalese fashion designer (born 1952)
- Oumou Coulibalyb. 1958MLMalian politician
- Oumou Sangaréb. 1968MLMalian singer
- Oumou Simbo Keïtab. 1968MLMalian politician
- Oumou Traoréb. 1969MLMalian athlete (* 1969)
- Oumou Sowb. 1970GNGuinean sprinter
- Oumou Cathy Bèyeb. 1980SNauthor from Senegal writing in French
- Oumou Touréb. 1988SNSenegalese-French basketball player
- Oumou Konéb. 1999MLMalian 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).
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 33 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 2.9K | #416 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 972 | #12,677 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 43 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 39 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 35 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 32 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 31 | — |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 25 | #46 |
| ML Mali | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 13 | #17 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4 | #12,677 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Oumou?
- A machine transcription gives /umu/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Oumou a male or female name?
- Oumou is a female 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 Oumou?
- In the etymology graph, Omaima and Umayma are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Oumou have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 43 thousand people named Oumou in Guinea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oumou.
- How common is the name Oumou?
- In the United States, the national register counted 976 people named Oumou in 2020, about 1 in 341 thousand residents.
- How common is Oumou compared with other names?
- In Guinea, Oumou is the 25th most common given name of 523 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Oumou?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oumouThe 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, “Oumou” — the 25th most common given name in Guinea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.