Mame
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mame is a given name, most frequently recorded in France. In Senegal it is the 10th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: inflection of mamar:.
- SNSenegal1 in 112◐
- FRFrance1 in 57K
- USUnited States1 in 409K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈987 ●
- Sources
- 190 ●
- 1 in 117K ◐
across 10 countries
13K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
inflection of mamar:
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 9,287 | 7.6K rec. | — | 11 | Mame | 190 |
| SN Senegal | #10 | 6,017 | 2K rec. | — | 138 | Mame | 64 |
| US United States | — | 814 | 1.5K rec. | 1 in 409K | 814 | Mame | 149 |
| IT Italy | — | 679 | 700 rec. | — | — | Mame | 31 |
| BE Belgium | — | 264 | 247 rec. | — | 5 | Mame | 22 |
| MX Mexico | — | 85 | 85 rec. | — | — | Mame | 1 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 83 | 63 rec. | — | — | Mame | 12 |
| GH Ghana | — | 73 | 34 rec. | — | — | Mame | 8 |
| CA Canada | — | 68 | 69 rec. | — | 13 | Mame | 31 |
| SE Sweden | — | 60 | 44 rec. | 1 in 170K | 60 | — | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | 43 | — | 1 in 4.9M | 43 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 27 | 460 rec. | 1 in 1.9M | 28 | Mame | 49 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French19K58%
- English4K12%
- Spanish3.1K10%
- Arabic7772%
- Japanese5332%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 18,874 | 58% |
| English | 3,957 | 12% |
| Spanish | 3,103 | 10% |
| Arabic | 777 | 2% |
| Japanese | 533 | 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●
Mame is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, the noise of stone falling, a dull, heavy sound, loud thump, as on a floor
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In nay, Food derived from an animal, meat.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of まめ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bkn, father’s brother
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In mqs, to catch
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 |
|---|---|
| 1880 | 12 |
| 1881 | 14 |
| 1882 | 12 |
| 1883 | 17 |
| 1884 | 17 |
| 1885 | 17 |
| 1886 | 12 |
| 1887 | 16 |
| 1888 | 15 |
| 1889 | 12 |
| 1890 | 10 |
| 1891 | 16 |
| 1892 | 11 |
| 1894 | 6 |
| 1895 | 9 |
| 1896 | 6 |
| 1897 | 5 |
| 1898 | 9 |
| 1899 | 6 |
| 1914 | 10 |
| 1991 | 7 |
| 1992 | 5 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1997 | 9 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 1999 | 10 |
| 2000 | 12 |
| 2001 | 20 |
| 2002 | 29 |
| 2003 | 22 |
| 2004 | 20 |
| 2005 | 20 |
| 2006 | 15 |
| 2007 | 15 |
| 2008 | 17 |
| 2009 | 17 |
| 2010 | 15 |
| 2011 | 11 |
| 2012 | 12 |
| 2013 | 15 |
| 2014 | 13 |
| 2015 | 9 |
| 2016 | 16 |
| 2017 | 14 |
| 2018 | 11 |
| 2019 | 14 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2021 | 11 |
| 2022 | 9 |
| 2023 | 10 |
| 2024 | 17 |
| 2025 | 23 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 53 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Mame Younousse Diengb. 1939SNSenegalese writer (1939–2016)
- Mame Madior Boyeb. 1940SNSenegalese politician
- Mame Maty Mbengueb. 1968SNSenegalese basketball player (born 1968)
- Mame Niangb. 1984SNSenegalese footballer
- Mame Diodio Dioufb. 1984SNSenegalese basketball player (born 1984)
- Mame N'Diayeb. 1986SNSenegalese association football player
- Mame Saher Thiouneb. 1989SNassociation football player
- Mame Thiamb. 1992SNSenegalese association football player
- Mame Bineta Sanéb. 2000SNSenegalese actress
- Mame KhanINIndian playback and folk singer
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 37 sources across 24 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 · 156 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Mame?
- We estimate roughly 987 people bear Mame (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Mame have the most bearers?
- Mame is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled mame.
- How common is Mame compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Mame is the 10th most common given name of 3,508 given names recorded there.
- Is Mame a male or female name?
- Mame 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 Mame mean?
- Recorded meaning: inflection of mamar:
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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, “Mame” — the 10th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.