Maimouna
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maimouna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country, where it is the 38th most common given name.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 329(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 383K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Senegal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 203 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 329 (inferred from the name graph)
≈48,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Maïmouna in BF Burkina Faso.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maimouna 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #38 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 329 | 75 | Maimouna | 39 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 849 | Maimouna | 18 |
| ML Mali | #34 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 5 | Maimouna | 17 |
| CM Cameroon | #395 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Maimouna | 10 |
| BF Burkina Faso | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Maïmouna | 12 |
| TD Chad | #34 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Maimouna | 7 |
| US United States | — | 868 | 1 in 383K | 866 | Maimouna | 147 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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. 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)
- Dadasare Abdullahib. 1918NGnot in their usual nameNigerian writer, nurse, teacher and journalist of Fulani descent
- Maïmouna Kaneb. 1937SNSenegalese jurist and politician (1937–2019)
- Maimouna N'Diayeb. 1950GNFranco-Burkinabe actress
- Maïmouna Gueyeb. 1950SNFrench-Senegalese actress
- Maïmouna Guerresib. 1951ITItalian photographer (born 1951)
- Maïmouna Sourang Ndirb. 1952SNSenegalese politician
- Maimouna Yombounob. 1960GNGuinean politician
- Maïmouna Doucouréb. 1985FRFrench writer and filmmaker
- Maimouna Youssefb. 1990USUS singer and rapper
- Maimouna Diarrab. 1991SNSenegalese basketball player (born 1991)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 866 | #13,788 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 75 | #18 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 32 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 26 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 23 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Maimouna a male or female name?
- Maimouna 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 Maimouna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 48 thousand people named Maimouna in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maimouna.
- How common is the name Maimouna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 868 people named Maimouna in 2020, about 1 in 383 thousand residents.
- How common is Maimouna compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Maimouna is the 38th most common given name of 3,375 given names 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/maimounaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Maimouna” — the 38th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.