Maame
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maame is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ghana. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- GHGhana1 in 3.4K◐
- USUnited States1 in 768K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 308K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈523 ●
- Sources
- 154 ●
- 1 in 340K ◐
across 7 countries
7.3K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | #104 | 5,037 | 3.4K rec. | — | 136 | Maame | 70 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 672 | 407 rec. | — | listed | Maame | 65 |
| US United States | — | 433 | 2.4K rec. | 1 in 768K | 433 | Maame | 154 |
| IT Italy | — | 138 | 139 rec. | — | — | Maame | 8 |
| DE Germany | — | 128 | 131 rec. | — | 1 | Maame | 22 |
| CA Canada | — | 117 | 113 rec. | — | 2 | Maame | 26 |
| FR France | — | 87 | 92 rec. | — | — | Maame | 25 |
| AU Australia | — | 71 | 59 rec. | — | — | Maame | 25 |
| BE Belgium | — | 50 | 56 rec. | — | — | Maame | 7 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 42 | 42 rec. | — | — | Maame | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 40 | 138 rec. | 1 in 432K | 40 | Maame | 11 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 32 | 7 rec. | — | — | Maame | 2 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English6.1K57%
- Swahili1.5K14%
- Arabic4654%
- Spanish2663%
- French2292%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 6,065 | 57% |
| Swahili | 1,477 | 14% |
| Arabic | 465 | 4% |
| Spanish | 266 | 3% |
| French | 229 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Maame is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Wolof, grandfather
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Akan, woman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 11 |
| 2000 | 7 |
| 2001 | 5 |
| 2002 | 10 |
| 2003 | 13 |
| 2004 | 12 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2007 | 9 |
| 2008 | 9 |
| 2009 | 6 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2013 | 9 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2015 | 5 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2018 | 12 |
| 2019 | 6 |
| 2020 | 7 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 7 |
| 2023 | 7 |
| 2024 | 8 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 23 years between 1999–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquahb. 1969GHCurrently, the first female Commandant of the Ghana Police Command and Staff College
- Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpongb. 1976USAmerican judge
- Maame Esi Acquah Taylorb. 1980GHGhanaian fashion entrepreneur and a former beauty queen
- Maame Bineyb. 2000GHAmerican short-track speed skater
- Maame Serwaab. 2000GHGhanaian actress
- Maame Adjeiactress
- Maame Sarfoah AppiahGHGhanaian politician
- Maame Yaa AfriyeGHGhanaian CEO
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 17 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 40 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Maame?
- We estimate roughly 523 people bear Maame (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Maame have the most bearers?
- Maame is most frequently recorded in Ghana, where it is most often spelled maame.
- How common is Maame compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Maame is the 104th most common given name of 14,190 given names recorded there.
- Is Maame a male or female name?
- Maame is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maame” — the 104th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.