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Mamadou

#1,760 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Muhammad

Mamadou has been given to 1,924 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #1,760 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 106 recorded.

Babies named Mamadou, 2025

1 in 36,000

Mamadou 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mamadou: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Muhammad

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mamadou means

Mamadou is a form of Muhammad.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Mamadou is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Muhammad.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Mamadou is pronounced /ma.ma.du/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,924 boys were recorded with the name Mamadou between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 106 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,540 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,642 in 2020 to #1,760 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,179 in 2015 to #1,760 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mamadou?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 36,000
92 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 18,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,760
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
24,978 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mamadou 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 24,978 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mamadou. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mamadous were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mamadou was born before 2011 — so the typical Mamadou is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,924
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 34.0% of all recorded uses (654).

Is Mamadou 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
−143
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+882
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+419
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.46×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
86.8%
Peak was 2024 (106)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,540
2003

Spellings of Mamadou

Mamadou is not the most common spelling — Amado is, with 42.3% against Mamadou's 17.1%.

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 Mamadou is used

Across 1910–2025, Mamadou was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 35,981 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 14,286
  2. 2Maryland1 in 50,000
  3. 3Ohio1 in 50,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Indiana1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —
  7. 7Washington1 in —

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. Mamadou has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mamadou around the world

Where Mamadou 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
    2002–2025
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • France
    1958–2025
    #169
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #669
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mamadou by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,760
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 882
Best rank ever
#1,540
2003
Peak year
2024
106 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,924
Count in 2025
92

Names similar to Mamadou

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

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Sibling names for Mamadou

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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