Ousman
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əsmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ousman is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chad than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common given name.
- GMGambia≈1 in 100(inferred from the name graph)
- TDChad≈1 in 683
- CMCameroon≈1 in 2.7K
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.
- Chad (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 100 (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Gambia, 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)
Ousman 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TD Chad | #11 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 683 | — | Ousman | 19 |
| GM Gambia | #6 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 100 | 9 | Ousman | 58 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Ousman | 14 |
| CM Cameroon | #261 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Ousman | 13 |
| SN Senegal | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Ousman | 14 |
| ES Spain | — | 611 | 1 in 82K | 611 | Ousman | 23 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IEC — Nominated Candidates National Assembly Elections 2022. 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)
- Ousman Badjieb. 1967GMGambian Chief of the Defence Staff
- Ousman Sonkob. 1969GMGambian politician
- Ousman Soweb. 1972GMGambian Politician
- Cedric Bolimab. 1979CDnot in their usual nameFrench association football player
- Ousman Kruballyb. 1988USAmerican basketball player
- Ousman Marongb. 1999GMGambian footballer
- Ousman Jabangb. 2001USAmerican soccer player
- Ousman Simab. 2001ESSpanish basketball player (born 2001)
- Ousman Jobeb. 2005GMGambian swimmer
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 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 611 | #3,996 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 452 | #2,266 |
| GM Gambia | IEC — Nominated Candidates National Assembly Elections 2022 | 2022 | 9 | #4 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Ousman?
- A machine transcription gives /əsmən/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Ousman a male or female name?
- Ousman 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 Ousman have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Ousman in Chad, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ousman.
- How common is the name Ousman?
- In Spain, the national register counted 611 people named Ousman, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
- How common is Ousman compared with other names?
- In Chad, Ousman is the 11th most common given name of 250 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ousman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ousmanThe 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, “Ousman” — the 11th most common given name in Chad. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.