Mahamadou
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: INSEE, 2024
Mahamadou is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mali than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common given name.
- MLMali≈1 in 70(inferred from the name graph)
- NENiger≈1 in 91few records
- SNSenegal≈1 in 1Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mali (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 194 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 70 (inferred from the name graph)
≈350,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mali, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mahamadou counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ML Mali | #2 | ≈350,000 est. | ≈1 in 70 | 10 | Mahamadou | 43 |
| NE Niger | #2 | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 91 | 7 | Mahamadou | 35 |
| SN Senegal | #104 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 998 | 4 | Mahamadou | 31 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 318 | — | 14 |
| FR France | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 3.4K | Mahamadou | 194 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,443 | 1 in 20K | 2.4K | Mahamadou | 46 |
| CF Central African Republic | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | 2 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; ANE — Liste provisoire des candidats (legislatives & regionales 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mahamadou Issoufoub. 1952NEPresident of Niger from 2011 to 2021
- Mahamadou Djeri Maïgab. 1972MLMalian separatist
- Mahamadou Susohob. 2005ESSpanish association football player (born 2005)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Mahamadou?
- In the etymology graph, Mehmet, Muhammad and Mohammad are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Mahamadou a male or female name?
- Mahamadou is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: France (INSEE, 2024), Spain (INE) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Mahamadou?
- Mondonomo estimates about 350 thousand people named Mahamadou in Mali, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahamadou. After it come Niger, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mahamadou?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,443 people named Mahamadou, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Mahamadou compared with other names?
- In Mali, Mahamadou is the 2nd most common given name of 2,109 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mahamadou?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mahamadouThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mahamadou” — ranked 26th in Mali (Wikidata humans by citizenship). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.