Modou
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɔdu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Modou is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country, where it is the 39th most common given name.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 196(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 16K
- GMGambia≈1 in 147
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
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 147 (inferred from the name graph)
≈80,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Gambia, 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 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Modou 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: DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); IEC — Nominated Candidates National Assembly Elections 2022. 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)
- Modou Niangb. 1945SNSenegalese painter
- Modou Fada Diagneb. 1969SNSenegalese politician
- Kara Mbodjb. 1989SNnot in their usual nameSenegalese footballer (born 1989)
- Modou Bahb. 1990NONorwegian actor
- Modou Barrowb. 1992GMGambian association football player
- Modou Jadamab. 1994GMGambian footballer (1994–2024)
- Modou Diagneb. 1994SNSenegalese footballer (born 1994)
- Modou Ndowb. 2000GMGambian 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 34 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.7K | #2,009 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.3K | #1,026 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 60 | #24 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 9 | #942 |
| GM Gambia | IEC — Nominated Candidates National Assembly Elections 2022 | 2022 | 7 | #5 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- How do you pronounce Modou?
- A machine transcription gives /mɔdu/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Modou a male or female name?
- Modou 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.
- What are other forms of the name Modou?
- In the etymology graph, Mehmet, Muhammad and Mohammad are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Modou have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 80 thousand people named Modou in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled modou.
- How common is the name Modou?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,654 people named Modou, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Modou compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Modou is the 39th most common given name of 3,375 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Modou?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/modouThe 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, “Modou” — the 39th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.