Bakary is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Cissé is a common West African name of Soninke origin, and the meaning of Cissé is the white horse in the same language.
Traoré or Traore is a surname of Manding origin, as written in French orthography, which is common in Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Guinea. In anglophone West Africa the name is often spelled Trawally.
Touré is the French transcription of a West African surname. The name is probably derived from tùùré, the word for 'elephant' in Soninké, the language of the Ghana Empire. The clan existed as kings of Zaghari on the middle Niger before the Moroccan invasion of Ghana. A theory of their origin holds that the Touré are descended from the "Roum," pre-Arab North African soldiers, and local women.
Diarra is a French translation of the clan name Jara used in West Africa, as a hangover from the French colonial empire in that region. It originates from the Bambara language word jara, meaning lion, synonymous with waraba. The Kingdom of Diarra existed from the 7th Century until the 19th Century. The name is also frequently used with reference to the 18th to early 19th-century Bambara Empire in Ségou, Mali, which was ruled successively by Ngolo Diarra, his son Mansong Diarra, and then his son Da Diarra.
Abdoulaye is a West African masculine given name and surname. It is equivalent to the Arabic names Abdallah or Abdullah, given name of Muhammad's father. People with this name include:
Amadou is the Francophonic-orthography variant of the Islamic name Ahmad, commonly used in West Africa. Amadou is interchangeable with the forms Ahmadu or Amadu in non-Francophone African countries.
Ba, Bâ, and Bah are potentially related West African surnames, usually of Fula origin. In the Fula culture of Mali and Senegal, the surname Diakité is considered equivalent.
Ousmane is a French-Arabic surname and male given name common in West Africa. It is derived from the Arabic name Uthman through Osman. People named Ousmane include:
Ismaël is a given name or surname, and may refer to:
Dramane is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Diabaté is a surname. It can be found in Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, France, and Burkina Faso.
Diallo is a French pronunciation of a Fulani surname of Fula origin. It is one of several common surnames used among the Fula.
Tall is an English surname which derived from the Old French word 'de Taille' meaning someone great in height, and it came to England after the Norman Conquest. Notable people with the surname include:
Diakité is a family name of Fula origin.
Boubacar is both a surname and a given name, which is a West African variant of Abu Bakr.
Adama is a Hebrew given name meaning earth or soil, and a Hindu surname.
Bakari is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Koné (KOH-nay), also spelt Kone, is a surname found mostly in North and West Africa, in particular Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Guinea.
Soumaré is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Yacouba is a common West African masculine given name and surname, a Francized form of Yaqub, the Arabic form of Jacob. Notable people with the name include: