Madam
given name · Malay · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Madam is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is the 41st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Malay and Indonesian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A polite form of address for a woman or lady.
- MYMalaysia1 in 969◐
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- IDIndonesia1 in 2.7M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 21 ●
- 1 in 750K ◐
across 1 country
recorded for this name
192 records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
A polite form of address for a woman or lady.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #41 | 67,073 | 1 rec. | — | — | Madam | 11 |
| IN India | — | 45 | 129 rec. | — | 537 | Madam | 8 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 34 | 31 rec. | — | — | Madam | 21 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 26 | 6 rec. | — | — | Madam | 11 |
| PH Philippines | — | 6 | 8 rec. | — | — | Madam | 3 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | — | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | — | — | — | 13 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | — | — | — | 12 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | — | — | — | 4 | — | — |
| CK Cook Islands | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| CL Chile | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Malay59K71%
- Indonesian5.6K7%
- English4.8K6%
- Hindi3.1K4%
- 2.8K3%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Malay | 58,727 | 71% |
| Indonesian | 5,592 | 7% |
| English | 4,752 | 6% |
| Hindi | 3,125 | 4% |
| 2,849 | 3% |
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●
Madam is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Indonesian, madame, lady
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, madam (polite term of address to a woman)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, synonym of fru
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, madam, lady
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.
Evidence●
Attested in 12 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 43 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Madam?
- We estimate roughly 1 people bear Madam (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Madam have the most bearers?
- Madam is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled madam.
- How common is Madam compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Madam is the 41st most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
- Is Madam a male or female name?
- Madam is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Madam mean?
- Recorded meaning: A polite form of address for a woman or lady.
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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, “Madam” — the 41st most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.