Ramatoulaye
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʁamaulai/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ramatoulaye is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country, where it is the 56th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 83K(inferred from the name graph)
- SNSenegal≈1 in 574
- GNGuinea≈1 in 885
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
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 574 (inferred from the name graph)
≈27,000 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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ramatoulaye 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 | #56 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 574 | 31 | Ramatoulaye | 40 |
| GN Guinea | #86 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 885 | 4 | Ramatoulaye | 7 |
| FR France | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 83K | 560 | Ramatoulaye | 133 |
| ML Mali | #240 | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 2 | Ramatoulaye | 8 |
| US United States | — | 321 | 1 in 1M | 321 | Ramatoulaye | 81 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 87K | 7 | Ramatoulaye | 15 |
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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
- Ramatoulaye Diagne Mbengueb. 1963SNSenegalese philosopher
- Ramatoulaye Anta Bodianb. 1977SNpolitician from Senegal
- Ramatoulaye Syb. 2006SNSenegalese basketball player (born 2006)
- N’Diaye Ramatoulaye DialloMLMalian politician
- Ramatoulaye BaldéGNGuinean activist
- Bah RamatoulayeGNGuinean politician
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 20 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 560 | #896 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 321 | #28,137 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 31 | #41 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 12 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2022 | 11 | #759 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 10 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Ramatoulaye?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁamaulai/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Ramatoulaye a male or female name?
- Ramatoulaye 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.
- In which country does Ramatoulaye have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named Ramatoulaye in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ramatoulaye.
- How common is the name Ramatoulaye?
- In the United States, the national register counted 321 people named Ramatoulaye in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
- How common is Ramatoulaye compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Ramatoulaye is the 56th most common given name of 3,375 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ramatoulayeThe 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, “Ramatoulaye” — the 56th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.