Names distinctive to Guinea

The list of names unique to the Republic of Guinea*

Female forenames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank

Male forenames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank
1. Thierno 36% 1.

Surnames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank
1. Diallo 29% 1.
2. Camara 21% 2.
3. Bah 37% 3.
4. Bangoura 83% 7.
5. Soumah 91% 9.
6. Kourouma 79% 8.
7. Balde 27% 5.
8. Kaba 31% 6.
9. Sylla 21% 4.
10. Doumbouya 77% 10.
11. Condé 94% 11.
12. Haba 58% 13.
13. Kamano 97% 14.
14. Lamah 97% 16.
15. Baldé 49% 12.
16. Mroweh 100% 20.
17. Berete 92% 18.
18. Loua 65% 15.
19. Guilavogui 96% 22.
20. Tolno 99% 23.
21. Magassouba 92% 25.
22. Souare 47% 21.
23. Geopogui 100% 26.
24. Oulare 98% 27.
25. Nabe 50% 24.

Distinctive names in
the related** countries

CountrySimilarity
Mali 23%
Senegal 22%
Burkina Faso 17%
Côte d'Ivoire 17%
Gambia (the) 16%
Equatorial Guinea 15%
Gabon 14%
Togo 14%

*The rank of the unique name is the geometric average of the name uniqueness and the name prevalence in the respective country. Name uniqueness is measured only by the exact grapheme form (not taking into account transliterational equivalents or phonetic similarities).

** Country similarity is the correlation of the relative frequency of the names shared by two countries (as measured by cosine similarity).