Serhou
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Meaning
“Guinean given name, meaning uncertain; famously borne by striker Serhou Guirassy”
The story
Serhou is a Guinean given name whose original meaning has slipped past the record books, as happens with names carried in speech far longer than in writing. Its fame rests on Serhou Guirassy, born in France to Guinean parents, who chose to play for Guinea and became one of Europe's most feared strikers in his late twenties: a remarkable scoring run for Stuttgart made him a Bundesliga sensation, and after moving to Borussia Dortmund he finished among the Champions League's leading scorers, a late bloomer whose patience paid off spectacularly. In American records Serhou has no history at all beyond a first flicker in the 2020s, which makes it a genuinely rare pick, essentially one of a kind in the United States: a name whose story is still being written, mostly by one man's goals.
How popular is Serhou around the world?
Serhou does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
United States
under 5 a year
Serhou does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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The Serhou deep dive
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