Fallou
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- fah-LOO
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Fallou is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
What does Fallou mean?
Senegalese (Wolof-speaking) name
Also spelled Falilou; Serigne Falilou Mbacké led the Mouride Sufi order of Senegal from 1945 to 1968.
Is Fallou a girl's or a boy's name?
Fallou is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Fallou in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,239th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Fallou, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 2005, with 14 boys. It first appears in the records in 2002.
2025 had more boys named Fallou than any year since 2016.
Half of all the boys named Fallou in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Fallou in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,815 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,016 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,138 |
| 2018 | 6 | #10,754 |
| 2017 | 6 | #10,770 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,152 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,775 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,280 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,585 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,231 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,030 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,090 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,572 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,348 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,385 |
Names like Fallou
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hamza, Zahir, Musa, Zamir, Zayd, Jamir, Nazir, Zayan, Nasir, Amir, Muhammad, Ahmir
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Fallou: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/fallou, updated 20 October 2026.