Souleymane
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sʊlɛman/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Souleymane is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guinea than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common given name.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 212(inferred from the name graph)
- GNGuinea≈1 in 165
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 364
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.
- Guinea (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 216 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 165 (inferred from the name graph)
≈76,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guinea, 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.
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Souleymane 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GN Guinea | #19 | ≈76,000 est. | ≈1 in 165 | 7 | Souleymane | 24 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #685 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 364 | 2.9K | Souleymane | 33 |
| SN Senegal | #23 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 212 | 29 | Souleymane | 57 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #35 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 377 | — | Souleymane | 24 |
| ML Mali | #14 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 21 | Souleymane | 39 |
| TD Chad | #22 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Souleymane | 14 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,530 | 1 in 33K | 1.5K | Souleymane | 46 |
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; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026. 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)
- Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malikb. 675SAnot in their usual nameUmayyad caliph
- Solomana Kanteb. 1922GNnot in their usual nameGuinean writer
- Souleymane Cisséb. 1940MLMalian film director (1940–2025)
- Souleymane Ndéné Ndiayeb. 1958SNSenegalese politician
- Souleyman Sanéb. 1961SNnot in their usual nameSenegalese footballer
- Souleymane Diawarab. 1978SNSenegalese and French footballer
- Souleymane Camarab. 1982SNSenegalese and French footballer
- Souleymane Diamouteneb. 1983MLMalian footballer
- Sol Bambab. 1985FRnot in their usual namefootball player and manager (1985–2024)
- Jordan Adeotib. 1989FRnot in their usual nameBeninese and French footballer
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)
Attested in 42 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.5K | #2,124 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.3K | #1,064 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 29 | #43 |
| ML Mali | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 21 | #9 |
| GN Guinea | DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026 | 2026 | 7 | #9 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 are other forms of the name Souleymane?
- In the etymology graph, Süleyman, Salim and Selim are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Souleymane?
- A machine transcription gives /sʊlɛman/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Souleymane a male or female name?
- Souleymane is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Souleymane have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 76 thousand people named Souleymane in Guinea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled souleymane.
- How common is the name Souleymane?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,530 people named Souleymane, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
- How common is Souleymane compared with other names?
- In Guinea, Souleymane is the 19th most common given name of 523 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Souleymane?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/souleymaneThe 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, “Souleymane” — the 19th most common given name in Guinea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.