Segun
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃɛɡɔn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Segun is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 77th most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 705(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 171K
- USUnited States1 in 840K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 209 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 705 (inferred from the name graph)
≈300,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, 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 across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Segun 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #77 | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 705 | listed | Segun | 133 |
| US United States | — | 396 | 1 in 840K | 390 | Segun | 209 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 171K | 43 | Segun | 131 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 319K | — | Segun | 15 |
| ES Spain | — | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 573K | 50 | Segun | 12 |
| MT Malta | #219 | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Segun | 3 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 217K | 1 | — | — |
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: the masakhane register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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)
Segun is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In io, according to, agreeably to, in conformity with; pursuant to, after
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, obsolete spelling of según
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, according to
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Olusegun Obasanjob. 1937NGnot in their usual namenigerian president (1999-2007) and military leader (1976–79)
- Olusegun Agagub. 1948NGnot in their usual nameNigerian politician (1948–2013)
- Segun Odegbamib. 1952NGNigerian footballer
- Olusegun Mimikob. 1954NGnot in their usual nameNigerian politician & Medical Doctor
- Sealb. 1963GBnot in their usual nameBritish musician, singer, songwriter and record producer
- Olusegun Adeniyib. 1965NGnot in their usual nameNigerian journalist
- Olli Banjob. 1977DEnot in their usual nameGerman rapper
- Lanre Oyebanjob. 1990GBnot in their usual nameassociation football player (born 1990)
- Segun Akinolab. 1992GBBritish composer
- Tayo Edunb. 1998GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player (born 1998)
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 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 390 | #24,355 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6 | #24,355 |
| NG Nigeria | MasakhaNER 2.0 — Zimbabwe (sna) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Segun?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɛɡɔn/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Segun a male or female name?
- Segun 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 Segun have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 304 thousand people named Segun in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled segun.
- How common is the name Segun?
- In the United States, the national register counted 396 people named Segun in 2020, about 1 in 840 thousand residents.
- How common is Segun compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Segun is the 77th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Segun?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/segunThe 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, “Segun” — the 77th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.