Bintou — #4245 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Bintou

The Social Security Administration has registered 577 babies named Bintou between 1994 and 2024, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bintou currently holds the #4245 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 34 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bintou performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 211 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Bintou shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 243 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Bintou in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bintou in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 577 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.