Sokhna
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɔkna/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sokhna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country, where it is the 42nd most common given name.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 322(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 95K
- ITItaly≈1 in 164K
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
- 149 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 322 (inferred from the name graph)
≈49,000 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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sokhna 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 | #42 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 322 | 59 | Sokhna | 45 |
| FR France | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 95K | 485 | Sokhna | 149 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 164K | 8 | Sokhna | 8 |
| US United States | — | 343 | 1 in 970K | 343 | Sokhna | 87 |
| ES Spain | — | 210 | 1 in 238K | 210 | Sokhna | 19 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 214K | 4 | Sokhna | 12 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sokhna Dieng Mbackéb. 1950SNSenegalese journalist and politician (1950–)
- Sokhna Bengab. 1967SNSenegalese novelist and poet
- Sokhna Syb. 1988SNSenegalese basketball player (born 1988)
- Sokhna Galleb. 1994FRFrench athletics competitor
- Sokhna Fatou Dia Syllab. 1997SNSenegalese basketball player (born 1997)
- Sokhna Lacosteb. 2000SNFrench athletics competitor
- Sokhna Bintou Lob. 2000SNbasketball player (born 2000)
- Sokhna Fallb. 2003SNSenegalese basketball player (born 2003)
- Sokhna Ngaya Ndiayeb. 2004SNSenegalese basketball player (born 2004)
- Sokhna Khadidiatou Sembeneb. 2005SNSenegalese basketball player (born 2005)
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 485 | #822 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 343 | #26,915 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 210 | #8,709 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 177 | #4,492 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 59 | #25 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 14 | — |
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 Sokhna?
- A machine transcription gives /sɔkna/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Sokhna a male or female name?
- Sokhna 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 Sokhna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 49 thousand people named Sokhna in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sokhna.
- How common is the name Sokhna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 343 people named Sokhna in 2020, about 1 in 970 thousand residents.
- How common is Sokhna compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Sokhna is the 42nd most common given name of 3,375 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sokhna?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sokhnaThe 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, “Sokhna” — the 42nd most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.