Sokhna
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Sokhna is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country, where it is the 42nd most common given name.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 150(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 79Kfew records
- FRFrance≈1 in 87K
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)
- Record sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 146 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Senegal, 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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sokhna 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 | #42 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 146 | 59 | Sokhna | 45 |
| FR France | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 87K | 485 | Sokhna | 149 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 79K | 8 | Sokhna | 8 |
| US United States | — | 343 | 1 in 970K | 343 | Sokhna | 87 |
| ES Spain | — | 210 | 1 in 238K | 210 | Sokhna | 19 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 138K | 4 | Sokhna | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 169K | 7 | Sokhna | 3 |
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 prénoms (1900–2024); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Sokhna Bengab. 1967SNSenegalese novelist and poet
- Sokhna Syb. 1988SNSenegalese basketball player (born 1988)
- Sokhna Fatou Dia Syllab. 1997SNSenegalese basketball player (born 1997)
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sokhna a male or female name?
- Sokhna is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2024), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Spain (INE).
- Which countries have the most people named Sokhna?
- Mondonomo estimates about 127 thousand people named Sokhna in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sokhna. After it come France, Italy, United States and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sokhna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 343 people named Sokhna in 2020, about 1 in 970 thousand residents.
- How common is Sokhna compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Sokhna is the 42nd most common given name of 3,375 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sokhna?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sokhnaThe 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, “Sokhna” — ranked 25th in Senegal (DGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.