Senghor
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: Senegal/Gambia: 'descendent of the gods'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɑ̃ɔʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Senghor is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 199K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 764K
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Senghor itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 199K (inferred from the name graph)
251 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled เซ่งฮ่อ in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Senegal/Gambia: 'descendent of the gods'.
Sources 1
- African Names
How Senghor is read(measured from records)
Senghor is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French57%
Senegal/Gambia: 'descendent of the gods'.
as a nameAfrican Names
- English22%
Leopold, president, Senegal
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Senghor 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.
251 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Senghor 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.
Senegal: name from Senegal
as a nameAfrican Names
Descendant of the Gods.
as a nameThe African book of names
In Croatian, senegalski političar i pjesnik, zagovornik umjerenog »afričkog socijalizma«, predsjednik Republike Senegal (1960—1980); objavio više zbirki pjesama
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Lamine Senghorb. 1889SNSenegalese politician (1889-1927)
- Léopold Sédar Senghorb. 1906FRfirst president of Senegal, poet, and cultural theorist (1906–2001)
- Colette Hubertb. 1925FRnot in their usual namesecond wife of the French-Senegalese writer and politician, Léopold Sédar Senghor
- Constance Senghorb. 1963SNSenegalese high jumper
- Fatou Kande Senghorb. 1971SNSenegalese artist, filmmaker and photographer
- Jeanne Senghorb. 1982SNSenegalese basketball player (born 1982)
- Papa Arfang Senghorb. 1989SNSenegalese writer
- Binta Senghorb. 1992SNSenegalese amateur wrestler
- Shaka SenghorUSAmerican convicted murderer, college lecturer, author
- Augustin SenghorSNSenegalese 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 14 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 251 | #13,912 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 251 | #13,875 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 13 | #58 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 11 | #56,728 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #122,862 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #215,520 |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Senghor mean, and where does it come from?
- Senegal/Gambia: 'descendent of the gods'. Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Senghor?
- A machine transcription gives /sɑ̃ɔʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Senghor have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 251 people named Senghor, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Senghor most common?
- Senghor is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 199 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Senghor?
- In Spain, the national register counted 251 people named Senghor, about 1 in 199 thousand residents.
- How common is Senghor compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Senghor is the 595th 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/senghorThe 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, “Senghor” — the 595th most common surname in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.