Bakayoko
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bakayoko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 45K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 329
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.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 329 (inferred from the name graph)
≈84,000 people, est.
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.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bakayoko 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 | #430 | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 329 | 23K | Bakayoko | 31 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 92 | Bakayoko | 151 |
| GN Guinea | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | — | 5 |
| ML Mali | #508 | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Bakayoko | 8 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Bakayoko | 2 |
| US United States | — | 187 | 1 in 1.8M | 264 | Bakayoko | 89 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the gn-sylla-patronymes 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)
- Youssouf Bakayokob. 1943CIIvorian politician (1943–2023)
- Ramata Ly-Bakayokob. 1955CIIvorian academic, pediatric dentistry professor, and government official
- Hamed Bakayokob. 1965CIPrime Minister of Ivory Coast (2020-2021)
- Ibrahima Bakayokob. 1976CIIvorian and French footballer
- Soualio Bakayokob. 1991FRfootball player
- Tiemoué Bakayokob. 1994FRFrench footballer (born 1994)
- Amadou Bakayokob. 1996GBSierra Leonean footballer
- Axel Mohamed Bakayokob. 1998FRIvorian and French association football player
- Alpha Bakayokob. 1999MLProfesional football player
- Johan Bakayokob. 2003BEBelgian 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 23K | #30 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 264 | #78,145 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 187 | #97,210 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 92 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 54 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 2 | — |
| GN Guinea | Patronymes de Guinée — Fodé Tass Sylla surname inventory (432 noms de famille) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- In which country does Bakayoko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 84 thousand people named Bakayoko in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bakayoko.
- How common is the name Bakayoko?
- In the United States, the national register counted 187 people named Bakayoko in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
- How common is Bakayoko compared with other names?
- In Côte d’Ivoire, Bakayoko is the 430th most common surname of 18,411 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bakayoko?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bakayokoThe 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, “Bakayoko” — the 430th most common surname in Côte d’Ivoire. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.