Salifou
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Journal Officiel, 2024
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.
- GNGuinea≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 570Kfew records
- BEBelgium1 in 651K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Niger (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 100 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 306 (inferred from the name graph)
≈88,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 the surname Salifou is found
(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 | ≈88,000 est. | ≈1 in 306 | 1 | Salifou | 22 |
| BJ Benin | #140 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 1 | Salifou | 22 |
| TG Togo | #385 | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 861 | 2 | Salifou | 12 |
| BF Burkina Faso | — | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Salifou | 12 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | 694 | Salifou | 13 |
| 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
- Dikeni Salifoub. 2003DETogolese footballer (born 2003)
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Salifou?
- Mondonomo estimates about 88 thousand people named Salifou in the Niger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salifou. After it come Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.
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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 2026-10-13.