Mamadou
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from West Africa
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mamadou is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guinea than in any other country, where it is the most common given name.
- GNGuinea≈1 in 20(inferred from the name graph)
- SNSenegal≈1 in 36
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 190
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.
- Guinea (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 275 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20 (inferred from the name graph)
≈610,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name from West Africa.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mamadou 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GN Guinea | #1 | ≈610,000 est. | ≈1 in 20 | 19 | Mamadou | 46 |
| SN Senegal | #1 | ≈440,000 est. | ≈1 in 36 | 295 | Mamadou | 97 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #444 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 190 | — | Mamadou | 38 |
| ML Mali | #1 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 324 | 60 | Mamadou | 50 |
| FR France | #486 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 8.2K | Mamadou | 275 |
| ES Spain | — | 6,170 | 1 in 8.1K | 6.2K | Mamadou | 84 |
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); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026. 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)
- Al-Battanib. 858TRnot in their usual nameIslamic astronomer and mathematician (died 929)
- Al-Birunib. 973AFnot in their usual name11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
- Bahadur Shah Zafarb. 1775INnot in their usual name18th and last Mughal Emperor from 1837 to 1857
- Idris I of Libyab. 1889LYnot in their usual nameKing of Libya from 1951 to 1969
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavib. 1919IRnot in their usual nameShah of Iran from 1941 to 1979
- Muḥammad Bāqir aṣ-Ṣadrb. 1935IQnot in their usual nameIraqi Shia cleric, philosopher, and the ideological founder of the Islamic Dawa Party (1935-1980)(55 yrs)
- Mohamed ElBaradeib. 1942EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian law scholar and diplomat, 4th Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
- Rashad al-Alimib. 1954YEnot in their usual nameChairman of the Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen since 2022
- Mohamed Ould Ghazouanib. 1956MRnot in their usual nameMauritanian retired general and politician; President of Mauritania (2019–present)
- Mohamed Salahb. 1992EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian association football player (born 1992)
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 66 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 8.2K | #190 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6.2K | #766 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 5.1K | #399 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 295 | #1 |
| ML Mali | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 60 | #1 |
| GN Guinea | DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026 | 2026 | 19 | #4 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Mamadou mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from West Africa. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Mamadou a male or female name?
- Mamadou is a male 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.
- What are other forms of the name Mamadou?
- In the etymology graph, Mehmet, Muhammad and Mohammad are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mamadou have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 615 thousand people named Mamadou in Guinea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mamadou.
- How common is the name Mamadou?
- In Spain, the national register counted 6,170 people named Mamadou, about 1 in 8.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Mamadou compared with other names?
- In Guinea, Mamadou is the most common given name of 523 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/mamadouThe 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, “Mamadou” — the most common given name in Guinea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.