Mariama
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mariama is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guinea it is the 7th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Gift of God.
- SNSenegal1 in 294◐
- BEBelgium1 in 11K
- FRFrance1 in 19K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈10K ●
- Sources
- 225 ●
- 1 in 19K ◐
across 11 countries
32K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin●
Gift of God
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Attested across 27 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,889 | 4.2K rec. | 1 in 86K | 3.9K | Mariama | 140 |
| FR France | — | 3,640 | 20K rec. | 1 in 19K | 3.6K | Mariama | 225 |
| SN Senegal | #36 | 2,288 | 735 rec. | — | 71 | Mariama | 39 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,675△ | 305 rec. | 1 in 30K | 1.7K | Mariama | 41 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,408 | 1.4K rec. | — | 16 | Mariama | 30 |
| GH Ghana | #344 | 427 | 278 rec. | — | — | Mariama | 19 |
| SE Sweden | #781 | 403 | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 25K | 403 | Mariama | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 400 | 224 rec. | — | 3 | Mariama | 46 |
| EG Egypt | — | 324 | 265 rec. | — | — | Mariama | 14 |
| GN Guinea | #7 | 263 | 793 rec. | — | 8 | Mariama | 19 |
| BR Brazil | — | 243 | — | 1 in 871K | 255 | — | — |
| MA Morocco | — | 225 | 369 rec. | — | — | Mariama | 29 |
Roughly 3.9K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 86K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French44K54%
- English12K14%
- Spanish6.1K7%
- Portuguese3.9K5%
- Swahili1.8K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 44,478 | 54% |
| English | 11,779 | 14% |
| Spanish | 6,077 | 7% |
| Portuguese | 3,925 | 5% |
| Swahili | 1,837 | 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●
Mariama is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
West African: 'gift of God'
as a nameAfrican 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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1971 | 8 |
| 1972 | 18 |
| 1973 | 11 |
| 1974 | 18 |
| 1975 | 11 |
| 1976 | 9 |
| 1977 | 14 |
| 1978 | 10 |
| 1979 | 17 |
| 1980 | 9 |
| 1981 | 9 |
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1983 | 8 |
| 1984 | 7 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1986 | 6 |
| 1988 | 9 |
| 1989 | 16 |
| 1990 | 13 |
| 1991 | 22 |
| 1992 | 37 |
| 1993 | 41 |
| 1994 | 43 |
| 1995 | 35 |
| 1996 | 40 |
| 1997 | 48 |
| 1998 | 44 |
| 1999 | 51 |
| 2000 | 55 |
| 2001 | 69 |
| 2002 | 60 |
| 2003 | 70 |
| 2004 | 66 |
| 2005 | 62 |
| 2006 | 63 |
| 2007 | 65 |
| 2008 | 70 |
| 2009 | 54 |
| 2010 | 56 |
| 2011 | 74 |
| 2012 | 58 |
| 2013 | 59 |
| 2014 | 55 |
| 2015 | 50 |
| 2016 | 72 |
| 2017 | 50 |
| 2018 | 68 |
| 2019 | 56 |
| 2020 | 62 |
| 2021 | 58 |
| 2022 | 53 |
| 2023 | 54 |
| 2024 | 77 |
| 2025 | 76 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 54 years between 1971–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Mary Stuartb. 1542GBnot in their usual nameQueen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567 (1542–1587)
- Mary II of Englandb. 1662GBnot in their usual nameQueen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1689 to 1694 (1662-1694)
- Mary Wollstonecraftb. 1759GBnot in their usual nameEnglish writer and intellectual (1759–1797)
- Mary Harrisb. 1830USnot in their usual nameIrish-born American labor and community organizer (1837–1930)
- Mary Cassattb. 1844USnot in their usual nameAmerican painter and printmaker (1844—1926)
- Mary Pickfordb. 1892CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress and producer (1892–1979)
- Vivien Leighb. 1913GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (1913–1967)
- Mary McAleeseb. 1951IEnot in their usual name8th President of Ireland
- Kris Jennerb. 1955USnot in their usual nameAmerican media personality, socialite, and businesswoman
- Princess Beatrice of Yorkb. 1988GBnot in their usual nameelder daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson
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 67 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.9K | #4,677 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 3.6K | #262 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.7K | #1,989 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.4K | #1,149 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 403 | #3,222 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 354 | #3,168 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 262 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 255 | #21,838 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 243 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 241 | #22,137 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 142 | #4,351 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 95 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 · 289 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Mariama?
- We estimate roughly 10 thousand people bear Mariama (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Mariama have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 3.9 thousand people bear Mariama in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled mariama.
- How common is Mariama compared with other names?
- In Guinea, Mariama is the 7th most common given name of 457 given names recorded there.
- Is Mariama a male or female name?
- Mariama 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.
- What does the name Mariama mean?
- Recorded meaning: Gift of God
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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, “Mariama” — the 7th most common given name in Guinea. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.