Sekou
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Fighter
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zku/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sekou is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guinea than in any other country. In Mali it is the 12th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 261K
- GNGuinea≈1 in 209
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
- 182 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 209 (inferred from the name graph)
≈60,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guinea, 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 Sékou in GN Guinea.
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(measured from records)
Fighter
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sekou 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 | #136 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 209 | 3 | Sékou | 22 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 887 | 1.9K | Sekou | 20 |
| ML Mali | #12 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 13 | Sekou | 33 |
| SN Senegal | #172 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 2 | Sekou | 22 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 1.8K | Sekou | 182 |
| US United States | — | 1,273 | 1 in 261K | 1.3K | Sekou | 152 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1 | — | 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); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026; 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)
Sekou is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Guinean: 'learned'
as a nameAfrican Names
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)
- Ahmed Sékou Touréb. 1922GNPresident of Guinea (1922-1984)
- Sékou Touréb. 1934CIIvorian footballer (1934-2003)
- Sékou Berthéb. 1977MLMalian and French footballer
- Sekou Cisséb. 1985CIIvorian footballer
- Sékou Sanogob. 1989CIIvorian footballer
- Sekou Olisehb. 1990LRLiberian footballer
- Sekou Gassamab. 1995ESSpanish association football player (1995-)
- Sekou Koitab. 1999MLMalian association football player
- Sekou Doumbouyab. 2000GNGuinean-French basketball player (born 2000)
- Sékou Marab. 2002FRFrench 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 45 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.8K | #523 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #10,462 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 38 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 35 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1972 | 35 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 34 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 32 | — |
| ML Mali | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 13 | #19 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7 | #10,462 |
| GN Guinea | DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026 | 2026 | 3 | #13 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 2 | #69 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Sekou mean, and where does it come from?
- Fighter Recorded by The book of African names.
- How do you pronounce Sekou?
- A machine transcription gives /zku/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Sekou a male or female name?
- Sekou 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 Sekou have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 60 thousand people named Sekou in Guinea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sékou.
- How common is the name Sekou?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,273 people named Sekou in 2020, about 1 in 261 thousand residents.
- How common is Sekou compared with other names?
- In Guinea, Sekou is the 136th most common given name of 523 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sekou?
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/sekouThe 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, “Sekou” — the 136th most common given name in Guinea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.