Sène
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɛn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sène is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Old French sene.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 156(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 21K
- BRBrazil1 in 22K
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.
- Senegal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 235 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 156 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sene in FR France, SN Senegal, ES Spain.
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)
From Old French sene.
Sources 1
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sène 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.
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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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)
- Badara Sèneb. 1945SNSenegalese football referee
- Moussa Sèneb. 1946SNSenegalese basketball player (1946-)
- Diallo Sèneb. 1952MLMalian politician
- Moussa Sène Absab. 1958SNSenegalese film director
- Fama Diagne Sèneb. 1969SNSenegalese writer
- Matar Sèneb. 1970SNOlympic wrestler Senegalese
- Saër Sèneb. 1986FRFrench footballer
- Amy Sèneb. 1986FRFrench-born hammer thrower representing Senegal
- Ndéye Séneb. 1988SNSenegalese basketball player (born 1988)
- Leïti Sène Joel Teixidób. 1998ESSpanish actor
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 5 sources across 3 countries.
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 Sène mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old French sene. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Sène?
- A machine transcription gives /sɛn/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Sène have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 101 thousand people named Sène in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sene.
- How common is the name Sène?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 9,628 people named Sène, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Sène compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Sène is the 17th 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/s%C3%A8neThe 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, “Sène” — the 17th most common surname in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.