Ousmane
given name · Latin script
Meaning: West Africa: name
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/usman/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ousmane is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common given name.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 99(inferred from the name graph)
- GNGuinea≈1 in 113
- BFBurkina Faso≈1 in 517
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
- 241 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 99 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
West Africa: name
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ousmane 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #8 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 99 | 101 | Ousmane | 74 |
| GN Guinea | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 113 | 8 | — | 23 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #924 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 579 | 913 | Ousmane | 33 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #53 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 517 | — | Ousmane | 20 |
| NE Niger | — | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 714 | 5 | — | 30 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,752 | 1 in 18K | 2.8K | Ousmane | 58 |
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); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
- Ousmane Sembeneb. 1923SNSenegalese film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author (1923–2007)
- Ousmane Sonkob. 1974SNSenegal politician and former tax official
- Ousmane Dabob. 1977FRFrench association football player (born 1977)
- Ousmane N'Doyeb. 1978SNSenegalese footballer
- Ousmane Cisseb. 1982MLMalian basketball player (born 1982)
- Ousmane Coulibalyb. 1989FRMalian and French association football player
- Ousmane N'Diayeb. 1991SNSenegalese footballer
- Ousmane Barryb. 1991GNGuinean footballer (born 1991)
- Ousmane Dembéléb. 1997FRFrench footballer (born 1997)
- Ousmane Diomandeb. 2003CIIvorian 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 56 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.8K | #1,399 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.2K | #711 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 101 | #11 |
| GN Guinea | DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026 | 2026 | 8 | #8 |
| NE Niger | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 5 | #16 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Ousmane mean, and where does it come from?
- West Africa: name Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Ousmane?
- A machine transcription gives /usman/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Ousmane a male or female name?
- Ousmane 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 Ousmane?
- In the etymology graph, Osman and Othmane are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ousmane have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 159 thousand people named Ousmane in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ousmane.
- How common is the name Ousmane?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,752 people named Ousmane, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Ousmane compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Ousmane is the 8th most common given name of 3,375 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ousmane?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ousmaneThe 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, “Ousmane” — the 8th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.