Segun
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register), 2002
/seɠun/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Segun is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 77th most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 760(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 180K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 340Kfew records
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 209 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 759 (inferred from the name graph)
≈310,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Segun
- Swahili:/seɠun/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Segun 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #77 | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 759 | listed | Segun | 133 |
| IN India | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | 1 | Segun | 11 |
| US United States | — | 396 | 1 in 840K | 390 | Segun | 209 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 179K | 43 | Segun | 131 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 343K | — | Segun | 15 |
| MT Malta | #219 | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Segun | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 514K | — | Segun | 56 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Segun is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In io, according to, agreeably to, in conformity with; pursuant to, after
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, obsolete spelling of según
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, according to
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Olusegun Obasanjob. 1937NGnot in their usual namenigerian president (1999-2007) and military leader (1976–79)
- Segun Odegbamib. 1952NGNigerian footballer
- Sealb. 1963GBnot in their usual nameBritish musician, singer, songwriter and record producer
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Segun?
- In Swahili /seɠun/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Segun a male or female name?
- Segun is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Segun?
- Mondonomo estimates about 306 thousand people named Segun in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled segun. After it come India, United States, United Kingdom and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Segun?
- In the United States, the national register counted 396 people named Segun in 2020, about 1 in 840 thousand residents.
- How common is Segun compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Segun is the 77th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Segun?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/segunThe 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, “Segun” — the 77th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.