Maimouna — #5080 US girls' name
581 babies named Maimouna in U.S. Social Security records since 1995, with the highest year being 2016. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 71% of names given to girls today.
40% of everyone ever named Maimouna was born in this single decade.
33 babies were named Maimouna in 2016 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Maimouna
The Social Security Administration has registered 581 babies named Maimouna between 1995 and 2024, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Maimouna currently holds the #5080 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 33 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Maimouna performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 232 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Maimouna shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 219 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Maimouna in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Maimouna in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 581 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Maimouna at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Maimouna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1995
- Peak year (2016)
- 33
- Annual births at peak — across 30 years of records
Currently ranks #5080 among girls.
581 total births across 30 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2016 with 33 births in a single year.
Maimouna by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 232 births that decade — 40% of Maimouna's all-time total
Maimouna decade highlights
- Peak decade 232 births
- Runner-up 182 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Maimouna's strongest decade
232 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 40% of all-time use.
Maimouna by state
Where Maimouna concentrates geographically — total births since 1995
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 219 | 37.7% |
| #2 | Ohio | | 24 | 4.1% |
| #3 | Pennsylvania | | 10 | 1.7% |
| #4 | Maryland | | 5 | 0.9% |
| #5 | Texas | | 5 | 0.9% |
219 of 581 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 5 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 37.7% of nationwide
- Ohio 4.1% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 1.7% of nationwide
- Maryland 0.9% of nationwide
- Texas 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 5 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 37.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1995–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.