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Mamadu

#11,500 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Mamadu has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 2014. In 2025 it ranked #11,500 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Mamadu, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mamadu: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mamadu means

Mamadu is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Mamadu is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Mamadu between 2014 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2025; its best national rank was #11,500 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 Mamadu?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,500
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mamadu 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mamadu. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mamadus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mamadu was born before 2017 — so the typical Mamadu is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
62.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 62.5% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Mamadu 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (6)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,500
2025

Spellings of Mamadu

Mamadu is not the most common spelling — Amado is, with 39.8% against Mamadu's 0.13%.

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.

Mamadu around the world

Where Mamadu 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
    2010–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • France
    2024–2025
    #6,234
    in 2025

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

Mamadu by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,500
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#11,500
2025
Peak year
2025
6 that year
First recorded
2014
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Mamadu

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

MamoonMamadyMamounMamadiMamonMamoudouMamoruAhaduRaduMamieAmaduMamadou

Sibling names for Mamadu

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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