Mamadou
Mamadou was given to 92 boys in 2025, #1,760 among boys’ names; 1,924 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,900 Americans named Mamadou and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mamadou by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mamadou mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Mamadou is “a male given name from West Africa.”
Ultimately from Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad), via North and West African languages such as Hausa Muhammadu. Doublet of Mahomet and Mohammed. (1897) The noun comes from the given name. It was first used in a catholic faith report to describe derogatorily an undetermined African person.
/ma.ma.du/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mamadou?
#1,760 among boys’ names, 2025
Mamadou rose from #2,179 in 2015 to #1,760 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 32.9 to 53.9 per million.
106 babies in 2024, the peak
Mamadou peaked in 2024, when 106 boys were given it, #1,617 among boys’ names. The 92 births of 2025 are 87% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | #1,760 | 53.9 |
| 2024 | 106 | #1,617 | 61.5 |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,260 | 36.8 |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,483 | 32.1 |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,071 | 40.6 |
| 2020 | 48 | #2,642 | 27.8 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,279 | 34.0 |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,130 | 36.3 |
| 2017 | 66 | #2,101 | 35.7 |
| 2016 | 75 | #1,951 | 39.5 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 63 | #2,179 | 32.9 |
| 2014 | 51 | #2,478 | 26.6 |
| 2013 | 54 | #2,351 | 28.5 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,083 | 34.8 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,096 | 33.7 |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,108 | 33.4 |
| 2009 | 74 | #1,935 | 37.3 |
| 2008 | 53 | #2,420 | 26.0 |
| 2007 | 80 | #1,824 | 38.5 |
| 2006 | 67 | #2,000 | 32.6 |
| 2005 | 71 | #1,825 | 35.5 |
| 2004 | 61 | #1,980 | 30.7 |
| 2003 | 83 | #1,540 | 42.0 |
| 2002 | 61 | #1,855 | 31.4 |
| 2001 | 61 | #1,829 | 31.4 |
| 2000 | 43 | #2,278 | 21.9 |
| 1999 | 39 | #2,318 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 40 | #2,257 | 20.9 |
| 1997 | 29 | #2,720 | 15.4 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,353 | 11.1 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,640 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 16 | #4,023 | 8.3 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,367 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,479 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,992 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,885 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mamadou a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mamadou has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mamadou: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mamadou, and how old are they?
1,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,924 Americans ever recorded as Mamadou. The median Mamadou alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 4,129 people named Mamadou (68 women and girls, 4,061 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,484 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 93 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 941 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 866 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Mamadou born?
The states with the most babies named Mamadou are New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania, with 86% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 45 | #390 | 8.3× |
| Ohio | 9 | #910 | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,060 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,477 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,091 | 0.1× |
Where Mamadou is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mamadou is most over-represented in New York: since 1990 it was given 8.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Mamadou with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,498 babies since 1880, Mamadou is the most given (77% of them). In 2025 it was given to 92 of their 119 babies (77%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mamadou
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mamadou and names like it
- Compare Mamadou and MahamadouBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMamadou peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mamadou since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Mamadou.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mamadou alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.