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Momo

Girls' name

Praised, commendable, laudable, through Mohammed

Momo has been given to 82 babies in the U.S. since 2000. 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 2018, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Momo, 2024

1 in 334,000

Momo over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Momo: meaning, origin, and history

Praised, commendable, laudable, through Mohammed

Japanese

What Momo means

Momo belongs to the name family reached through Momo → Mohammed → Muhammad. Its meaning is “praised, commendable, laudable”.

Origin, language, and formation

Momo is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

Momo comes through Japanese もも.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mohammed and Muhammad.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 82 girls were recorded with the name Momo between 2000 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2018; its best national rank was #10,020 in 2024.

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 Momo?

Momo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 334,000
10 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 162,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
231,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Momo 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 2024 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 231,706 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Momo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Momos were born

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

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
82
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.6% of all recorded uses (39).

Is Momo 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2018 (10)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,020
2024

Spellings of Momo

Momo is not the most common spelling — Mona is, with 50.1% against Momo's 0.09%.

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.

Momo around the world

Where Momo 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
    2006–2006
    #4,157
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Momo 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
#10,020
2024
Peak year
2018
10 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
82
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Momo

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

MominaMomokoMomokaMomieMomoyoMomoeMomoreoluwa

Sibling names for Momo

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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