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Mahamadou

#6,316 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Muhammad

Mahamadou has been given to 405 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #6,316 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Mahamadou, 2025

1 in 237,000

Mahamadou over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mahamadou: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Muhammad

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mahamadou means

Mahamadou is a form of Muhammad.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Mahamadou is a form of Muhammad. Muhammad has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Muhammad.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 405 boys were recorded with the name Mahamadou between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2008; its best national rank was #3,944 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,462 in 2020 to #6,316 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,560 in 2015 to #6,316 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Mahamadou?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,316
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mahamadou sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mahamadou. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mahamadous were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mahamadou was born before 2008 — so the typical Mahamadou is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
41.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
405
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Choose a decade

2000s — 41.2% of all recorded uses (167).

Is Mahamadou rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,237
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,146
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+244
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.08×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
58.3%
Peak was 2008 (24)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,944
1996

Spellings of Mahamadou

Mahamadou is not the most common spelling — Mamadou is, with 82.6% against Mahamadou's 17.4%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Mahamadou is used

Across 1910–2025, Mahamadou was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 55,748 across all states with data.

22 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mahamadou has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mahamadou around the world

Where Mahamadou ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2020–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    1972–2025
    #577
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Mahamadou by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,316
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,146
Best rank ever
#3,944
1996
Peak year
2008
24 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
405
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Mahamadou

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MahamedMahmoodMouhamadouMahkaiMahariMahmudMamoudouMahmoudMahziMahadevMahadMahlikMahkiMaherMaheshMaheerMohamadouMahonriMahkariMahamudMamadouMahanMahirAbdou

Sibling names for Mahamadou

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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