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Maymunah

#10,612 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Maymuna

Maymunah has been given to 143 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #10,612 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Maymunah, 2025

1 in 368,000

Maymunah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maymunah: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Maymuna

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maymunah means

Maymunah is a alternate transcription of Maymuna.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Maymunah → Maymuna. The family’s meaning is “auspicious, blessed, favourable”, recorded in the naming reference for Maymuna.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maymuna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 143 girls were recorded with the name Maymunah between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2024; its best national rank was #6,565 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,765 in 2020 to #10,612 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,607 in 2015 to #10,612 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 Maymunah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,612
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maymunah 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 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maymunah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maymunahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maymunah was born before 2019 — so the typical Maymunah is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
46.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
143
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Choose a decade

2020s — 46.9% of all recorded uses (67).

Is Maymunah 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
−4,047
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,153
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,995
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2024 (18)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,565
2024

Maymunah around the world

Where Maymunah 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
    1998–2025
    #1,133
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2022–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • France
    2024–2024
    #7,003
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Maymunah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,612
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,153
Best rank ever
#6,565
2024
Peak year
2024
18 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
143
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Maymunah

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

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Sibling names for Maymunah

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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