Mamta

Girls' name

Maternal love

Mamta has been given to 39 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1980, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Mamta, 1986

1 in 711,000

Mamta over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mamta: meaning, origin, and history

Maternal love

Hindi

What Mamta means

Mamta means “maternal love”, associated with mamtā.

Origin, language, and formation

Mamta is used in English. Its origins include Hindi.

Mamta comes through Hindi ममता.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 39 girls were recorded with the name Mamta between 1974 and 1986. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1980; its best national rank was #6,586 in 1980.

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 Mamta?

Mamta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1986, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1986: 1 in 711,000; 5 of 3,556,724 births
Among girls only: 1 in 343,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1986: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 493,068 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Mamta sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1986 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 493,068 children born in 1986 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mamta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mamtas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mamta was born before 1980 — so the typical Mamta is around 45 today.

Median birth year: 1980; About 45 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 51.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 39; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 51.3% of all recorded uses (20).

Is Mamta 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1980 (10)
Years since peak: 45; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 66.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,586; 1980

Spellings of Mamta

Mamta is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 32.7% against Mamta's <0.01%.

Maria32.7%566,111
Martha31.8%551,741
Maya7.1%123,587
Mamie4.5%77,907
Marla2.2%38,781
Mayra1.9%33,217
Malia1.8%31,606
Alta1.7%28,931

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.

Mamta around the world

Where Mamta 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
1996–1996
#3,795
in 1996

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Mamta by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #6,586; 1980
Peak year: 1980; 10 that year
First recorded: 1974
Last recorded: 1986
All-time count: 39
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Mamta

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

Maman Mama Mami Mamye Anamta Mame Hamta Mamediarra Mamy Mammie Mamie

Sibling names for Mamta

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

For a sister

Charissa Sharonda Shameka Darci Tosha Candi Siobhan Starla

For a brother

Leopoldo Jerod Wilfredo Antwan Ashley Delvin Chauncey Kareem

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