Names of Mayotte YT

INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte) records Inaya as the commonest given name in Mayotte; the names that most distinguish Mayotte from the rest of the world are Nael, Roukaya and Naira.

Written in French.

Population
194K
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
581
BBuilt from 1 official register (2024), 581 name forms in our corpus, 7 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

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Where the names most characteristic of Mayotte are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Mayotte included.

How names work in Mayotte

2 naming traditions are in use in Mayotte, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Mayotte

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 1
INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte), 2024 — 289 given names counted over residents, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Inaya3525
2Assia308
3Asma2022
4Aïcha20—
5Fatima20—
6Lina20—
7Malika20—
8Nelya2075
9Anaïs15—
10Dayana15—
11Kayla1544
12Mayra15—
13Soumaya1514
14Yousra159
15Alia10—
16Alicia10—
17Aliyah10—
18Alya10139
19Amina10—
20Anissa1064

Where the two lists disagree

21 of INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte)'s top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte) 2024Across all recordsrayane: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. rayanenot rankedben: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. bennot rankedyanis: 3 → 6 · one source only in our corpus3. yanis6ayane: 4 → 5 · one source only in our corpus4. ayane5ibrahim: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. ibrahimnot rankedamine: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. aminenot rankedaylan: 7 → 145 · ranks lower across all records; one source only in our corpus7. aylan145aymane: 8 → 118. aymane11imrane: 9 → 18 · ranks lower across all records9. imrane18karim: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. karimnot rankednaël: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. naëlnot rankedrayan: 12 → 1312. rayan13samir: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. samirnot rankedyassine: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. yassinenot rankedyoussef: 15 → 50 · ranks lower across all records; one source only in our corpus15. youssef50ayden: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. aydennot rankedbilal: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. bilalnot rankedfayel: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. fayelnot rankedhamza: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. hamzanot rankedidriss: 21 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country21. idrissnot rankedissam: 22 → 86 · ranks lower across all records; one source only in our corpus22. issam86kayden: 23 → 138 · ranks lower across all records; one source only in our corpus23. kayden138lyam: 24 → 79 · ranks lower across all records; one source only in our corpus24. lyam79malik: 25 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country25. maliknot rankednael: 26 → 3 · ranks higher across all records26. nael3
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte), 2024 on the left; every record we hold for Mayotte on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Mayotte

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Mayotte holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

NaelRoukayaNairaYousraAymaneImraneIkramYoussoufRayan
Sized by how much of the difference between Mayotte's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Over time

FatimaNaïmaNasraAssiaAïcha2012202445
INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte), 2012–2024 (13 years). The line is that register's own figure for each year — not a total across registers, which would count the same people twice. The publisher labels this series “flow”.

Up to five names at a time.

Scripts & spelling

Naelgiven name●
Ayanegiven name●
Yanisgiven name●
Yousragiven name●
Assiagiven name●
The best-attested names in Mayotte, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte)2024headline (given)

    Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE). Counts: residents. given. 366 forms. 2012–2024. Licence: Licence Ouverte / Open Licence (Etalab).

    What we know about this register

    French overseas department 976. Extracted from INSEE national fichier des prenoms (etat civil / civil registry of births), departmental CSV. First names by sex and year of birth WITH COUNTS (rounded to nearest 5; names with <3 births bucketed as _PRENOMS_RARES_ and excluded). Mayotte (976) data begins 2012.

    Last verified 2026-06-09.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Mayotte?
Rayane, according to INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte) (2024), with 50 bearers recorded among boys.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Mayotte?
Because they count different people. INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte) (2024) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Rayane. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Nael. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in Mayotte?
No — 2 are described on this page (Indian Ocean Creole and Comorian, French), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Mayotte”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/YT (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte).