Sakho
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sakho is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country, where it is the 64th most common surname.
- FRFrance≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- SNSenegal≈1 in 276
- GNGuinea≈1 in 1.1K
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.
- Senegal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 276 (inferred from the name graph)
≈57,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, 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)
Sakho 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #64 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 276 | 21 | Sakho | 40 |
| GN Guinea | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | — | 6 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 472 | Sakho | 200 |
| ML Mali | #594 | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Sakho | 5 |
| MR Mauritania | #57 | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Sakho | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 363 | 1 in 138K | 363 | Sakho | 20 |
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); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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)
- Juan Cazadorb. 1899ESnot in their usual nameSpanish poet and artist
- Cheikh Sakhob. 1957SNSenegalese historian
- Lamine Sakhob. 1977SNFrench and Senegalese footballer
- Balla Gaye 2b. 1986SNnot in their usual nameSenegalese Westler
- Mohamed Sakhob. 1988GNGuinean footballer
- Diafra Sakhob. 1989SNSenegalese and French association football player
- Mamadou Sakhob. 1990FRFrench footballer (born 1990)
- Mbassa SakhoSNSenegalese taekwondoin
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 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 472 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 406 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 363 | #10,365 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 363 | #10,332 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 107 | — |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 21 | #51 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 16 | — |
| GN Guinea | Patronymes de Guinée — Fodé Tass Sylla surname inventory (432 noms de famille) | — | — | — |
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 Sakho have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 57 thousand people named Sakho in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sakho.
- How common is the name Sakho?
- In Spain, the national register counted 363 people named Sakho, about 1 in 138 thousand residents.
- How common is Sakho compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Sakho is the 64th most common surname of 3,622 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/sakhoThe 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, “Sakho” — the 64th most common surname in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.