Mohamadou

given name · French · Latin script

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

Mohamadou is a given name, most frequently recorded in Cameroon, where it is the 47th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • CMCameroon1 in 1.2K
  • FRFrance1 in 140K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.6M

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

≈1.1K

across 5 countries

Sources
131

8.0K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 140K

France

Meaning & origin

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

Where in the world

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

Where Mohamadou is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CM Cameroon#471,6302.6K rec.2Mohamadou38
SN Senegal#79697235 rec.11Mohamadou31
FR France4853K rec.1 in 140K485Mohamadou131
ES Spain355107 rec.1 in 141K355Mohamadou25
US United States2061.3K rec.1 in 1.6M206Mohamadou69
BE Belgium118119 rec.1Mohamadou14
ML Mali#1166564 rec.1Mohamadou15
DE Germany3945 rec.listedMohamadou22
MR Mauritania#423542 rec.Mohamadou6
IT Italy3440 rec.1Mohamadou14
CI Côte d’Ivoire3036 rec.Mohamadou8
GB United Kingdom1722 rec.Mohamadou12

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

Languages

  • French8K65%
  • Spanish1.1K9%
  • English7866%
  • French (Côte d’Ivoire)6665%
  • Catalan3553%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French7,99265%
Spanish1,1269%
English7866%
French (Côte d’Ivoire)6665%
Catalan3553%

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

Over time

0246820002005201020158 · 1999

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Mohamadou in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1998–2019
Yearrecords
19985
19998
20017
20027
20067
20075
20085
20095
20115
20135
20155
20185
20195

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)13 years between 1998–2019. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name

19401960198020002020Mohamadou Dabo, b. 1959Mohamadou Bayero Fadil, b. 1960Mohamadou Sissoko, b. 1988Mohamadou Lamine Ba, b. 2001Mohamadou Kanté, b. 2005

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 19 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Mohamadou
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024485#2,849
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)355#5,818
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)310#2,960
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020206#37,262
SN SenegalDGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024)202411#60
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)10#120,154
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19998
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20067
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20027
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20017
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20195
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)19865

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 · 34 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mohamadou?
We estimate roughly 1.1 thousand people bear Mohamadou (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Mohamadou have the most bearers?
Mohamadou is most frequently recorded in Cameroon, where it is most often spelled mohamadou.
How common is Mohamadou compared with other names?
In Cameroon, Mohamadou is the 47th most common given name of 9,502 given names recorded there.
Is Mohamadou a male or female name?
Mohamadou 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.
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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, “Mohamadou” — the 47th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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