Bou-Bou
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bou-Bou is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mali than in any other country, where it is the 43rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: murmure; frou-frou.
- FRFrance≈1 in 32K(inferred from the name graph)
- SNSenegal≈1 in 2.8K
- MLMali≈1 in 3.1K
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.
- Mali (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, 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 Boubou in FR France, ML Mali, SN Senegal and 3 more.
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)
murmure; frou-frou
Sources 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bou-Bou 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ML Mali | #43 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 1 | Boubou | 24 |
| SN Senegal | #162 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 3 | Boubou | 17 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 605 | Boubou | 151 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | listed | Boubou | 11 |
| MR Mauritania | #17 | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Boubou | 10 |
| ES Spain | — | 218 | 1 in 229K | 218 | Boubou | 21 |
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); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bou-Bou mean, and where does it come from?
- murmure; frou-frou Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- In which country does Bou-Bou have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.3 thousand people named Bou-Bou in Mali, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boubou.
- How common is the name Bou-Bou?
- In Spain, the national register counted 218 people named Bou-Bou, about 1 in 229 thousand residents.
- How common is Bou-Bou compared with other names?
- In Mali, Bou-Bou is the 43rd most common given name of 2,109 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bou-Bou?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bou-bouThe 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, “Bou-Bou” — the 43rd most common given name in Mali. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.