Mamo

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●

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

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

• Hindi given name12K records spelled Mamo24 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Türkiye

  Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

  Also written Mam, Momo, Mama, মুমু, মম

• English given name10K records spelled Mamo9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, Ethiopia, South Africa

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Mamó, Mámô, Māmo

• a separate given name3.6K records spelled Mamo2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ethiopia, India, United States, Pakistan

  Also written Māmo

• French given name1.6K records spelled Mamo12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Ethiopia, United States, Syria

  Also written Mämö, Māmô, Māmö, Màmo, Mämo

• Indonesian given name1.3K records spelled Mamo3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Indonesia, Türkiye, Ethiopia

  Also written Mamó

• Danish given name543 records spelled Mamo5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, South Africa

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

  Also written Mâmô

39 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.

Other recorded senses●

Mamo 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.

• possibly Catalan (Mamo); variant spelling of Maimo (from Ai’ab Maymun ‘son of the fortunate one’), used in the Middle Ages to refer to unknown Muslims.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In Hawaiian, Hawaiian: 'yellow bird' or 'saffron flower'

  as a name·African Names

• Italian and Maltese; unexplained.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• Ethiopian; unexplained.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• yellow bird

  as a name·African Names

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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 86 years between 1912–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Mamo Clarkb. 1914USAmerican actress (1914-1986)
• Mamo Woldeb. 1932ETEthiopian marathon runner (1932–2002)

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 197 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mamo?

We estimate roughly 492 people bear Mamo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.

In which country does Mamo have the most bearers?

Mamo is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled mamo.

How common is Mamo compared with other names?

In Ethiopia, Mamo is the 19th most common given name of 35,068 given names recorded there.

Is Mamo a male or female name?

Mamo 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 Mamo mean?

Recorded meaning: Amharic: used to address a little boy whose name is unknown