Bintou is from the Malian Bambara Bintou — daughter (from Arabic bint — daughter). Bintou is one of the Malian + West African feminine names — central to traditional Bambara + Mande Indigenous + Sufi-Islamic heritage. The Bambara bintou concept is central to pan-Mande heritage spanning Mali + Guinea + Burkina Faso + Senegal + Côte d'Ivoire + The Gambia (~20 million Mande speakers). 1280-1337).
Bintou does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bintou reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.