Mada
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Mada people (Nigeria/Cameroon); also Hebrew diminutive of Magdalene ('high tower')
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmɑdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mada is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 26Kas Modi(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 108Kas Modi
- FRFrance≈1 in 130K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mada itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 304 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 130K (inferred from the name graph)
50,460 named Modi
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Modi in IN India, US United States, KE Kenya and 1 more and Meda in LA Laos.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Mada people (Nigeria/Cameroon); also Hebrew diminutive of Magdalene ('high tower').
Sources 1
- African Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mada 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #504 | 50,460as Modi | 1 in 26K | 50K | Modi | 259 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 39K | listed | Modi | 15 |
| US United States | — | 3,085as Modi | 1 in 108K | 4.4K | Modi | 304 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 209K | listed | Mada | 18 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 61K | listed | Modi | 17 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Meda | 4 |
| FR France | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 130K | 361 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 269as Madi | 1 in 38K | 269 | — | 13 |
| FI Finland | — | 123as Mod | 1 in 45K | 123 | — | 9 |
50,460 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the african-names-stewart-1993 register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mada is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Akan, F. = me ara; m. nko = mo ara nko, I (of) myself. made, mide, a kind of //awj, a. gd6. pr, 1988. in ad wo, Inicrj. [memawo ad wo] good evening! uiuiae, inf.freq, [ba] waba ha m., he hits often come here, o-mafo, pL a-, giver
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In Indonesian, nonstandard spelling of madar (“mad, heartless”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, alternative form of madadh (“dog”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nkr, front part of, face, beginning (of a thing); tip of; point, blade; common antecedents who are _daina_ (sibling, cousin) or other connecting links of kin relationship
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In kpg, to see, to look (used only in compounds)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Adam Madab. 1979AUmagician
- Bogdan Madab. 1989RORomanian canoeist
- Maya MadaJPJapanese architect
- Răzvan-Olimpiu MadaRORomanian researcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 45 sources across 25 countries.
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mada mean, and where does it come from?
- Mada people (Nigeria/Cameroon); also Hebrew diminutive of Magdalene ('high tower'). Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Mada?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɑdə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Mada a male or female name?
- Mada is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Mada have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 50 thousand people named Modi, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mada?
- In India, the national register counted 50,460 people named Modi, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Mada compared with other names?
- In India, Mada is the 504th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/madaThe 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, “Mada” — the 504th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.