Mahamat
surname · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mahamat is a surname, most frequently recorded in Chad, where it is the most common surname. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Rare spelling of Muhammad.
- TDChad1 in 51◐
- CMCameroon1 in 1.7K
- FRFrance1 in 1.6M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈106 ●
- Sources
- 159 ●
- 1 in 456K ◐
across 6 countries
19K records
Official registry-verified
Norway
Meaning & origin●
Rare spelling of Muhammad.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TD Chad | #1 | 2,168 | 4.7K rec. | — | 7 | Mahamat | 48 |
| CM Cameroon | #20 | 1,018 | 2.1K rec. | — | 1 | Mahamat | 25 |
| US United States | — | 431 | 809 rec. | — | listed | Mahamat | 60 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 398 | 917 rec. | — | — | Mahamat | 15 |
| LY Libya | #384 | 253 | 643 rec. | — | — | Mahamat | 7 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 199 | 344 rec. | — | — | Mahamat | 26 |
| EG Egypt | — | 133 | 323 rec. | — | — | Mahamat | 12 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 77 | 116 rec. | — | — | Mahamat | 14 |
| MA Morocco | — | 75 | 157 rec. | — | — | Mahamat | 16 |
| CA Canada | — | 64 | 83 rec. | — | 1 | Mahamat | 14 |
| SD Sudan | #762 | 64 | 90 rec. | — | — | Mahamat | 11 |
| IN India | — | 61 | 194 rec. | — | — | Mahamat | 15 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French7.1K52%
- Arabic3.4K25%
- English7956%
- Thai3493%
- Swahili3072%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 7,130 | 52% |
| Arabic | 3,391 | 25% |
| English | 795 | 6% |
| Thai | 349 | 3% |
| Swahili | 307 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2017 | 7 |
| 2020 | 7 |
| 2021 | 6 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 6 |
CA Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) — 8 years between 2011–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Abbas Mahamat Tollib. 1972TDChadian politician
- Amina Mahamatb. 1986TDChadian athletics competitor
- Azrack Mahamatb. 1988FRChadian footballer
- Ali Hissein Mahamatb. 2000Chadian athletics competitor (born 2000)
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 23 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CF Central African Republic | The page provides a list of common surnames in Central African Republic along with the number of people bearing each nam | 2023 | 177K | #4 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 75 | #10,332 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 47 | #13,240 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 42 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 28 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 28 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 23 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #28,946 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #27,396 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 20 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 17 | #52,214 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 17 | #91,572 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 66 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Mahamat?
- We estimate roughly 106 people bear Mahamat (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Mahamat have the most bearers?
- Mahamat is most frequently recorded in Chad, where it is most often spelled mahamat.
- How common is Mahamat compared with other names?
- In Chad, Mahamat is the most common surname of 660 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Mahamat mean?
- Recorded meaning: Rare spelling of Muhammad.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mahamat” — the most common surname in Chad. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.