Adou
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
Adou is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country.
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 460few records(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 90K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 410K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 457 (inferred from the name graph)
≈70,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, 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)Adou 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #839 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 457 | 15K | Adou | 29 |
| ML Mali | #229 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Adou | 9 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Adou | 3 |
| FR France | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 90K | 65 | Adou | 162 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Adou | 11 |
| ES Spain | — | 22 | 1 in 2.3M | 22 | — | 3 |
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: nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)- Mouftaou Adoub. 1991BJBeninese footballer
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)Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 15K | #45 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 65 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 47 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 28 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 25 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 22 | #79,764 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 22 | #78,058 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 7 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- In which country does Adou have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 70 thousand people named Adou in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adou.
- How common is the name Adou?
- In Spain, the national register counted 22 people named Adou, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
- How common is Adou compared with other names?
- In Côte d’Ivoire, Adou is the 839th most common surname of 18,411 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Adou?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adouThe 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, “Adou” — the 839th most common surname in Côte d’Ivoire. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.