Mame
Mame was given to 23 girls in 2025, #5,502 among girls’ names; 672 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mame by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mame?
#5,502 among girls’ names, 2025
Mame rose from #11,510 in 2015 to #5,502 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 14.3 per million.
29 babies in 2002, the peak
Mame peaked in 2002, when 29 girls were given it, #4,343 among girls’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 79% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,502 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,832 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,067 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,907 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,329 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,476 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,999 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,575 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,121 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,476 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,510 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,782 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,020 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,498 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,158 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,147 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,562 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,615 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,377 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,095 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,154 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,125 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,527 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,343 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,730 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,350 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,221 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,621 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,506 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,911 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,729 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,613 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,000 | under 0.01 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,369 | 0.01 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,520 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,228 | 0.03 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,703 | 0.02 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,515 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,175 | 0.04 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,431 | 0.03 |
| 1892 | 11 | #944 | 0.05 |
| 1891 | 16 | #685 | 0.09 |
| 1890 | 10 | #915 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 12 | #782 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 15 | #680 | 0.08 |
| 1887 | 16 | #578 | 0.11 |
| 1886 | 12 | #683 | 0.08 |
| 1885 | 17 | #531 | 0.13 |
| 1884 | 17 | #515 | 0.13 |
| 1883 | 17 | #476 | 0.15 |
| 1882 | 12 | #554 | 0.11 |
| 1881 | 14 | #463 | 0.15 |
| 1880 | 12 | #512 | 0.13 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mame a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mame has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mame: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mame, and how old are they?
An estimated 436 Americans named Mame and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (65% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 980 people named Mame (814 women and girls, 166 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 363 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 402,972 babies since 1880, Mame is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 5,301 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Mame
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 Mame and names like it
- Compare Mame and MayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMame peaked in 2002.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mame since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Mame.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mame alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.