Toure
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Guinean surname of Maninka or Soussou origin (African Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: DGE, 2026
Toure is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mali than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common surname.
- GNGuinea≈1 in 47(inferred from the name graph)
- MLMali≈1 in 59
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 98
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.
- Mali (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 264 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 47 (inferred from the name graph)
≈410,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Guinean surname of Maninka or Soussou origin
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Toure is found
(measured from records)Toure 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ML Mali | #11 | ≈410,000 est. | ≈1 in 59 | 49 | Toure | 54 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #251 | ≈330,000 est. | ≈1 in 98 | 62K | Toure | 42 |
| GN Guinea | — | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 47 | 23 | — | 28 |
| SN Senegal | #15 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 141 | 65 | Toure | 68 |
| FR France | #159 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | 1.8K | Toure | 264 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,719 | 1 in 18K | 2.7K | Toure | 51 |
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); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; 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); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Toure is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, variant spelling; origin uncertain
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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Kishti Tomitab. 1963SEnot in their usual nameSwedish idol judge
- Yannick Toureb. 2000SNassociation football player
- Absa Dialou Toureactress
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)41 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Toure mean, and where does it come from?
- Guinean surname of Maninka or Soussou origin Recorded by African Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Toure?
- Mondonomo estimates about 415 thousand people named Toure in Mali, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled toure. After it come Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Senegal and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Toure?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,719 people named Toure, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Toure compared with other names?
- In Mali, Toure is the 11th most common surname of 7,873 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/toureThe 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, “Toure” — ranked 4th in Mali (Wikidata humans by citizenship). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.