Names of South Sudan SS
Names in South Sudan are recorded in English and Arabic, with a given name followed by an inherited family name.
Written in English, Arabic.
- Population
- 11M
- Name forms recorded
- 603
At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.
How names work in South Sudan
2 naming traditions are in use in South Sudan, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.
The most common names in South Sudan
| # | Name | Estimated bearers | How common |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chol | — | — |
| 8 | Sherilee | — | — |
| 16 | Dorria | — | — |
| 26 | Brenice | — | — |
| 27 | Madelyn | — | — |
| 32 | Rodelle | — | — |
| 33 | Joanell | — | — |
| 43 | Lorrianne | — | — |
| 45 | Marialice | — | — |
| 46 | Amere | — | — |
| 55 | Marya | — | — |
| 60 | Achol | — | — |
| 61 | Hjalmer | — | — |
| 64 | Gunnel | — | — |
| 68 | Chariti | — | — |
| 69 | Javette | — | — |
| 76 | Sharann | — | — |
| 85 | Juneanne | — | — |
| 87 | Ngor | — | — |
| 96 | Corraine | — | — |
No official register
Scripts & spelling
Countries whose names look alike
Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.
Registers & sources
Cited works
Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.
- Arab Naming Conventionspaper
- Dinka | Encyclopedia.comencyclopaedia
- Nuer | Encyclopedia.comencyclopaedia
- Arabic nameencyclopaedia
- Dinka peopleweb
- Dinka Submitted Namesnamesite
- How Arabic Names Work: A Guide to Ism, Nasab, Laqab, Nisba, and Kunyaweb
- Iraqiweb
- Naming Conventions throughout the Arab Worldweb
- Nuer peopleencyclopaedia
- Understanding Arabic Naming Conventionsweb
About this data
Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.
Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.
Questions
- Is there an official list of the most common names in South Sudan?
- We have not found one at an authority tier we would publish. The ranking on this page comes from our own record corpus and is labelled as such. If a register exists, we would like to hear about it.
- Is there one naming system in South Sudan?
- No — 2 are described on this page (Dinka and Nuer, Arabic), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.
Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of South Sudan”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/SS (data snapshot 2026-10-09).