Séssou
given name · Latin script
Séssou is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Benin than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 730Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
- PLPoland1 in 19M
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.
- Benin (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Togo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sessou in FR France, BJ Benin, TG Togo and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Séssou is found
(measured from records)Séssou 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJ Benin | #125 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Sessou | 22 |
| TG Togo | #623 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Sessou | 7 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Sessou | 6 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 304K | — | Sessou | 3 |
| FR France | — | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 726K | — | Sessou | 83 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 480K | — | Sessou | 4 |
| BE Belgium | — | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | Sessou | 11 |
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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Séssou?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Séssou in Benin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sessou. After it come Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Séssou?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 3 people named Séssou in 2008, about 1 in 3.9 million residents.
- How common is Séssou compared with other names?
- In Benin, Séssou is the 125th most common surname of 5,339 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Séssou?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A9ssouThe 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, “Séssou” — the 125th most common surname in Benin. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.