Sylla
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sylla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guinea than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common surname.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 135(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 5.2K
- GNGuinea≈1 in 64
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
- 270 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 64 (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 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 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sylla 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 | #11 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 64 | 46 | Sylla | 26 |
| SN Senegal | #22 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 135 | 54 | Sylla | 61 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #415 | ≈87,000 est. | ≈1 in 318 | 22K | Sylla | 35 |
| ML Mali | #22 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 868 | 9 | Sylla | 37 |
| FR France | #205 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | 1.4K | Sylla | 270 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,899 | 1 in 26K | 1.9K | Sylla | 53 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 2 | — | 21 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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)
- Jacques Syllab. 1946MGPrime Minister of Madagascar (1946-2009)
- Khady Syllab. 1963SNSenegalese writer (1963–2013)
- Yacouba Syllab. 1990FRMalian footballer
- Issiaga Syllab. 1994GNGuinean footballer
- Myriam Syllab. 1995ITItalian volleyball player (born 1995)
- Assa Syllab. 1996FRFrench actress
- Moussa Syllab. 1999FRFrench-Malian association football player
- Abakar Syllab. 2002CIIvorian football player
- Dembo Syllab. 2002FRGuinean football player
- Yvette SyllaMGMalagasy historian and 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 22K | #33 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.9K | #2,524 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.9K | #2,523 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 313 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 72 | — |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 54 | #28 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 53 | — |
| GN Guinea | DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026 | 2026 | 46 | #2 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 14 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Sylla have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 197 thousand people named Sylla in Guinea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sylla.
- How common is the name Sylla?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,899 people named Sylla, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Sylla compared with other names?
- In Guinea, Sylla is the 11th most common surname of 427 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Sylla” — the 11th most common surname in Guinea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.