Maimouna

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Maimouna is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria. In Senegal it is the 41st most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and French (Côte d’Ivoire), written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • SNSenegal1 in 354◐
  • TZTanzania1 in 3.1K
  • NGNigeria1 in 8K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈4.2K ●

across 6 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
195 ●

36K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 27K ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

MaimounaLatin · French●31K records
ไมมูนะThai · Thai●50 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Maimuna in NG Nigeria, IN India, TZ Tanzania and 10 more.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Maimouna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria#7519,15110K rec.—listedMaimuna53
IN India—5,4532.3K rec.——Maimuna35
TZ Tanzania#2124,3251.7K rec.—2Maimuna21
FR France—2,54013K rec.1 in 27K2.5KMaimouna195
SN Senegal#411,904622 rec.—75Maimouna36
KE Kenya#9851,737435 rec.——Maimuna24
US United States—8662.7K rec.1 in 384K866Maimouna133
ID Indonesia—71775 rec.——Maimuna51
ES Spain—686△337 rec.1 in 73K686Maimuna20
PH Philippines—562548 rec.——Maimuna5
BE Belgium—350321 rec.—6Maimouna18
ML Mali#42335351 rec.—5Maimouna16

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French31K65%
  • French (Côte d’Ivoire)10K21%
  • Spanish1.7K4%
  • English1.4K3%
  • Catalan6861%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French31,12165%
French (Côte d’Ivoire)10,06221%
Spanish1,7434%
English1,3523%
Catalan6861%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Maimouna is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name11K records spelled Maimouna2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Maïmouna

  • a separate given name124 records spelled Maimouna2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Morocco, Senegal, Niger

    Also written Maïmouna

  • Portuguese given name88 records spelled Maimouna2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Senegal, Brazil, Mali

    Also written Maïmouna

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name65 records spelled Maimouna5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Maïmouna

  • Japanese given name42 records spelled Maimouna2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Senegal, United States, Mauritania

    Also written Maîmouna

  • French (Guinea) given name40 records spelled Maimouna2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Guinea, Senegal

    Also written Maïmouna

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

01020304020002010202033 · 2016

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Maimouna in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1995–2025
Yearrecords
19956
199610
199712
199810
199915
200015
200114
200214
200321
200419
200520
200617
200728
200817
200917
201024
201119
201219
201323
201417
201523
201633
201724
201817
201933
202016
202119
202228
202325
202426
202532

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 31 years between 1995–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019201940196019802000Dadasare Abdullahi, b. 1918Maïmouna Kane, b. 1937Maimouna N'Diaye, b. 1950Maïmouna Gueye, b. 1950Maïmouna Guerresi, b. 1951Maïmouna Sourang Ndir, b. 1952Maimouna Yombouno, b. 1960Maïmouna Doucouré, b. 1985Maimouna Youssef, b. 1990Maimouna Diarra, b. 1991

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 28 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Maimouna
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20242.5K#750
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020866#13,788
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—849#620
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—686#3,700
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—542#2,034
SN SenegalDGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024)202475#18
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—44#14,952
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201933—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201633—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202532—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—30#15,996
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202228—

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 110 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Maimouna?
We estimate roughly 4.2 thousand people bear Maimouna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Maimouna have the most bearers?
Maimouna is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled maimuna.
How common is Maimouna compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Maimouna is the 751st most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
Is Maimouna a male or female name?
Maimouna 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

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Maimouna” — the 751st most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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