Mariama
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mariama is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guinea than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Gift of God.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 246(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 11K
- USUnited States1 in 85K
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
- 234 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 98 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Gift of God
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mariama 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 | #8 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 98 | 8 | Mariama | 18 |
| SN Senegal | #33 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 246 | 71 | Mariama | 43 |
| SL Sierra Leone | — | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 710 | 21 | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 3.6K | Mariama | 234 |
| CM Cameroon | #474 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Mariama | 10 |
| US United States | — | 3,901 | 1 in 85K | 3.9K | Mariama | 147 |
| GH Ghana | #346 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Mariama | 17 |
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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026; NEC/ECSL — 2018 Local Council, Chairperson and Mayor nominated candidates. 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)
Mariama is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
West African: 'gift of God'
as a nameAfrican Names
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)
- Mary Stuartb. 1542GBnot in their usual nameQueen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567 (1542–1587)
- Mary II of Englandb. 1662GBnot in their usual nameQueen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1689 to 1694 (1662-1694)
- Mary Wollstonecraftb. 1759GBnot in their usual nameEnglish writer and intellectual (1759–1797)
- Mary Harrisb. 1830USnot in their usual nameIrish-born American labor and community organizer (1837–1930)
- Mary Cassattb. 1844USnot in their usual nameAmerican painter and printmaker (1844—1926)
- Mary Pickfordb. 1892CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress and producer (1892–1979)
- Vivien Leighb. 1913GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (1913–1967)
- Mary McAleeseb. 1951IEnot in their usual name8th President of Ireland
- Kris Jennerb. 1955USnot in their usual nameAmerican media personality, socialite, and businesswoman
- Princess Beatrice of Yorkb. 1988GBnot in their usual nameelder daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson
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 68 sources across 39 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- In which country does Mariama have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 128 thousand people named Mariama in Guinea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mariama.
- What does the name Mariama mean, and where does it come from?
- Gift of God Recorded by The book of African names.
- Is Mariama a male or female name?
- Mariama 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.
- What are other forms of the name Mariama?
- In the etymology graph, Maria, Mary and Marie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Mariama?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,901 people named Mariama in 2020, about 1 in 85 thousand residents.
- How common is Mariama compared with other names?
- In Guinea, Mariama is the 8th most common given name of 523 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mariamaThe 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, “Mariama” — the 8th most common given name in Guinea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.