Madame
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: a title or form of address for a woman, formerly for a married woman and now commonly for any adult woman regardless of marital status, used both in direct and third-person address
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/madam/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Madame is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 42K(inferred from the name graph)
- SNSenegal≈1 in 28K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 51K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a title or form of address for a woman, formerly for a married woman and now commonly for any adult woman regardless of marital status, used both in direct and third-person address
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
How Madame is read(measured from records)
Madame is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French83%
a title or form of address for a woman, formerly for a married woman and now commonly for any adult woman regardless of marital status, used both in direct and third-person address
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish5.5%
madam (polite term of address to a woman)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Madame 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 42K | Madame | 147 |
| SN Senegal | #274 | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 28K | Madame | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 51K | Madame | 11 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 116K | Madame | 22 |
| US United States | — | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | Madame | 64 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 579K | Madame | 13 |
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.
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)
Madame is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, French term of address for a married
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, woman
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In enm, madam (polite term of address or (less often) title for a noble lady)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, synonym of fru (and French)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Madame mean, and where does it come from?
- a title or form of address for a woman, formerly for a married woman and now commonly for any adult woman regardless of marital status, used both in direct and third-person address Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Madame?
- In the etymology graph, Madam is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Madame?
- A machine transcription gives /madam/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Madame a male or female name?
- Madame is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Madame have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Madame in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled madame.
- How common is the name Madame?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1,600 people in France have Madame as their first given name, about 1 in 42 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Madame compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Madame is the 274th most common given name of 3,375 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Madame?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/madameThe 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, “Madame” — the 274th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.