Mamadou
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mamadou is a given name, most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is the most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from West Africa.
- GNGuinea1 in 26◐
- SNSenegal1 in 51
- MLMali1 in 282
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈19K ●
- Sources
- 265 ●
- 1 in 8.1K ◐
across 9 countries
137K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Meaning & origin●
a male given name from West Africa.
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #1 | 13,226 | 6.2K rec. | — | 295 | Mamadou | 87 |
| FR France | #651 | 8,210 | 75K rec. | 1 in 8.3K | 8.2K | Mamadou | 265 |
| ES Spain | — | 6,170 | 3.4K rec. | 1 in 8.1K | 6.2K | Mamadou | 80 |
| US United States | — | 4,061 | 27K rec. | 1 in 82K | 4.1K | Mamadou | 221 |
| ML Mali | #1 | 3,311 | 3.4K rec. | — | 60 | Mamadou | 44 |
| BE Belgium | #625 | 3,083 | 3.3K rec. | — | 16 | Mamadou | 59 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #241 | 2,871 | 3.1K rec. | — | — | Mamadou | 37 |
| IT Italy | — | 1,931 | 2.2K rec. | — | 20 | Mamadou | 62 |
| GN Guinea | #1 | 1,296 | 3.6K rec. | — | 19 | Mamadou | 43 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,222 | 694 rec. | — | 1 | Mamadou | 68 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,011 | 1K rec. | — | 2 | Mamadou | 74 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 542 | 743 rec. | — | listed | Mamadou | 66 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French147K69%
- Spanish24K11%
- English13K6%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)6.4K3%
- Catalan6.2K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 147,201 | 69% |
| Spanish | 23,533 | 11% |
| English | 13,423 | 6% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 6,384 | 3% |
| Catalan | 6,170 | 3% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 1990 | 7 |
| 1991 | 7 |
| 1992 | 13 |
| 1993 | 14 |
| 1994 | 16 |
| 1995 | 18 |
| 1996 | 21 |
| 1997 | 29 |
| 1998 | 40 |
| 1999 | 39 |
| 2000 | 43 |
| 2001 | 61 |
| 2002 | 61 |
| 2003 | 83 |
| 2004 | 61 |
| 2005 | 71 |
| 2006 | 67 |
| 2007 | 80 |
| 2008 | 53 |
| 2009 | 74 |
| 2010 | 64 |
| 2011 | 64 |
| 2012 | 66 |
| 2013 | 54 |
| 2014 | 51 |
| 2015 | 63 |
| 2016 | 75 |
| 2017 | 66 |
| 2018 | 66 |
| 2019 | 61 |
| 2020 | 48 |
| 2021 | 71 |
| 2022 | 56 |
| 2023 | 63 |
| 2024 | 106 |
| 2025 | 92 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 36 years between 1990–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Al-Battanib. 858TRnot in their usual nameIslamic astronomer and mathematician (died 929)
- Al-Birunib. 973AFnot in their usual name11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
- Bahadur Shah Zafarb. 1775INnot in their usual name18th and last Mughal Emperor from 1837 to 1857
- Idris I of Libyab. 1889LYnot in their usual nameKing of Libya from 1951 to 1969
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavib. 1919IRnot in their usual nameShah of Iran from 1941 to 1979
- Muḥammad Bāqir aṣ-Ṣadrb. 1935IQnot in their usual nameIraqi Shia cleric, philosopher, and the ideological founder of the Islamic Dawa Party (1935-1980)(55 yrs)
- Mohamed ElBaradeib. 1942EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian law scholar and diplomat, 4th Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
- Rashad al-Alimib. 1954YEnot in their usual nameChairman of the Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen since 2022
- Mohamed Ould Ghazouanib. 1956MRnot in their usual nameMauritanian retired general and politician; President of Mauritania (2019–present)
- Mohamed Salahb. 1992EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian association football player (born 1992)
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 65 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 8.2K | #190 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6.2K | #766 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 5.1K | #399 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.1K | #4,489 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 295 | #1 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 152 | #5,803 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 143 | #21,333 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 143 | #21,212 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 138 | #6,835 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 100 | #150,436 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 92 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 92 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 · 223 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Mamadou?
- We estimate roughly 19 thousand people bear Mamadou (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Mamadou have the most bearers?
- Mamadou is most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is most often spelled mamadou.
- How common is Mamadou compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Mamadou is the most common given name of 3,508 given names recorded there.
- Is Mamadou a male or female name?
- Mamadou is a male 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.
- What does the name Mamadou mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name from West Africa.
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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, “Mamadou” — the most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.