Salifou
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Salifou is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Niger than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common surname.
- NENiger≈1 in 985(inferred from the name graph)
- TGTogo≈1 in 1K
- BJBenin≈1 in 7.3K
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.
- Niger (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 100 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 985 (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Niger, 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)
Salifou 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NE Niger | #11 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 985 | 1 | Salifou | 22 |
| TG Togo | #385 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 2 | Salifou | 12 |
| BF Burkina Faso | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Salifou | 12 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 694 | Salifou | 13 |
| BJ Benin | #140 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | 1 | Salifou | 22 |
| BE Belgium | — | 18 | 1 in 651K | 18 | Salifou | 14 |
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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Assemblee Nationale du Benin — sitting-MP roster, 9eme legislature (2023-2028); Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
- Moustapha Salifoub. 1983TGTogolese association football player
- Abdel-Kader Salifoub. 1989FRFrench table tennis player
- Amadou Salifoub. 2000NENigerien politician
- Dikeni Salifoub. 2003DETogolese footballer (born 2003)
- Abdoulaye Gounou SalifouBJBeninois politician
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 13 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 694 | #740 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 18 | #50,501 |
| TG Togo | Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024) | 2024 | 2 | #11 |
| NE Niger | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #138 |
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 Salifou have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Salifou in the Niger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salifou.
- How common is the name Salifou?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 18 people named Salifou in 2008, about 1 in 651 thousand residents.
- How common is Salifou compared with other names?
- In the Niger, Salifou is the 11th most common surname of 242 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Salifou?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salifouThe 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, “Salifou” — the 11th most common surname in Niger. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.