Names of Mayotte YT

INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte) records Inaya as the commonest given name in Mayotte.

Written in French.

Population
194K
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
4
BBuilt from 1 official register (2024), 4 name forms in our corpus, 7 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

How names work in Mayotte

2 naming traditions are in use in Mayotte, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Mayotte

Counts children born in the year · authority tier 1
INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte), 2024 — 289 given names counted over children born that year, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Inaya35—
2Assia30—
3Asma20—
4Aïcha20—
5Fatima20—
6Lina20—
7Malika20—
8Nelya20—
9Anaïs15—
10Dayana15—
11Kayla15—
12Mayra15—
13Soumaya15—
14Yousra15—
15Alia10—
16Alicia10—
17Aliyah10—
18Alya10—
19Amina10—
20Anissa10—

Where the two lists disagree

25 of INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte)'s top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte) 2024Across all recordsrayane: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. rayanenot rankedben: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. bennot rankedyanis: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. yanisnot rankedayane: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. ayanenot rankedibrahim: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. ibrahimnot rankedamine: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. aminenot rankedaylan: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. aylannot rankedaymane: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. aymanenot rankedimrane: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. imranenot rankedkarim: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. karimnot rankednaël: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. naëlnot rankedrayan: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. rayannot rankedsamir: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. samirnot rankedyassine: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. yassinenot rankedyoussef: 15 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country15. youssefnot rankedayden: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. aydennot rankedbilal: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. bilalnot rankedfayel: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. fayelnot rankedhamza: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. hamzanot rankedidriss: 21 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country21. idrissnot rankedissam: 22 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country22. issamnot rankedkayden: 23 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country23. kaydennot rankedlyam: 24 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country24. lyamnot rankedmalik: 25 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country25. maliknot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte), 2024 on the left; every record we hold for Mayotte on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Over time

FatimaNaïmaNasraAssiaAïcha2012202445
INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte), 2012–2024 (13 years). The line is that register's own figure for each year — not a total across registers, which would count the same people twice. The publisher labels this series “flow”.

Up to five names at a time.

Scripts & spelling

Saidgiven name(measured from records)
Bacarsurname(measured from records)
Attoumanisurname(measured from records)
Stephanegiven name(measured from records)
The best-attested names in Mayotte, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Registers & sources

Official registers

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Mayotte?
Rayane, according to INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte) (2024), with 50 bearers recorded among boys.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Mayotte?
Because they count different people. INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte) (2024) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Rayane. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Said. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in Mayotte?
No — 2 are described on this page (Indian Ocean Creole and Comorian, French), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Mayotte”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/YT (data snapshot 2026-10-09). Official figures from INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte).