Below are listed popular Gambian male and female first names as well as common surnames; nicknames are in parenthesis. Note that spelling variations are common.

Male names		Female names	Surnames
Abdoulaye Ablanjaye Alaji Alason Alieu Amat Baboucar Bai Bakary Bala Baturu Boro Boubacar (Bouba) Chenor Cyper Demba Ebrima Ediresa (Edi) Foday Gereh Hassan Hatabu Isa Jabril Kairaba Kamara	Karamo Kawsu Kebba Lamin Malik Masane Mohammed Momodu (Modu) Musa Mustafa Omar Ousmane Paoboy Sainey Samba Seedy Sheriff Suma Sutay Tairu Tijan Yankubah Yaya Yoro	Adama Aminata (Ami) Awa Binta Channeh Fatoumata (Fatou) Isatou Jeneba (Jay) Kaddyatou (Kady) Kenenjaye Kutu Loli Mama Mandiki Mariama Musakuta Nene Oumil Pahali Piretta Ramatoulaye (Ramou) Saijo Seerha Sona Tida Yahar	Badjie Bah Baldeg Ceesay Colley Danzo Darbo Fatty Gaye Guissé Hairte Jaiteh Jallow Jammeh Jarju Jassey Jawara Jobateh Jobe Kah Manneh Marenah Mboge Mendy Njie Saidykahn Sanneh Sanyang Sarr Secka Senghore Sidibeh Sohna Sonko Suso Taal Touray

Islamic influence: Most Gambian names are either directly from the Koran or they are modified versions of them. For example Lamin is the local for for Al-Amin (a title given to the prophet Mohammed which means "the trustworthy"). In fact most first born males from the Mandinka tribe a named Lamin which can lead to a great deal of confusion when calling out a child's name. So they developed the convention to add their father's name after calling out "Lamin". Other names are Fatou derived from Fatima and Momodou or Modou from Mohammed, Bocar from Aboubacarr, and so on.