Fofana
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɔfana/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fofana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country. In Mali it is the 16th most common surname.
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 137(inferred from the name graph)
- MLMali≈1 in 694
- FRFrance≈1 in 5.3K
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
- 246 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 119 (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guinea, 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)
Fofana 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 | #208 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 137 | 55K | Fofana | 35 |
| GN Guinea | — | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 119 | 11 | — | 19 |
| SN Senegal | #75 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 539 | 5 | Fofana | 31 |
| ML Mali | #16 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 694 | 13 | Fofana | 39 |
| FR France | #202 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | 1.7K | Fofana | 246 |
| GM Gambia | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 361 | 1 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,461 | 1 in 20K | 2.5K | Fofana | 47 |
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 noms de famille (1891–2000); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026; IEC — Nominated Candidates National Assembly Elections 2022. 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)
- Mohamed Said Fofanab. 1952GNGuinean politician
- Ibrahima Kassory Fofanab. 1954GNPrime Minister of Guinea (2018–2021)
- Youssouf Falikou Fofanab. 1966CIIvorian and French footballer
- Mohamed Fofanab. 1985FRMalian and French footballer
- Seko Fofanab. 1995FRIvorian-French association football player
- Youssouf Fofanab. 1999FRFrench footballer (born 1999)
- Wesley Fofanab. 2000FRFrench footballer (born 2000)
- Yahia Fofanab. 2000FRIvorian and French footballer
- David Datro Fofanab. 2002CIIvorian association football player
- Malick Fofanab. 2005BEBelgian 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)
Attested in 37 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 55K | #16 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.5K | #2,034 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.5K | #2,034 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 263 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 15 | — |
| ML Mali | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 13 | #21 |
| GN Guinea | DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026 | 2026 | 11 | #9 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 5 | #66 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 2 | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Fofana?
- A machine transcription gives /fɔfana/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Fofana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 201 thousand people named Fofana in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fofana.
- How common is the name Fofana?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,461 people named Fofana, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Fofana compared with other names?
- In Côte d’Ivoire, Fofana is the 208th most common surname of 18,411 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fofanaThe 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, “Fofana” — the 208th most common surname in Côte d’Ivoire. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.