Madadi

surname · Latin script

Meaning: help; aid

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/mɑdədi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Madadi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 95K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 249K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 764K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

184 people, 2010

Sources
89 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 95K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

help; aid

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Madadi 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.

Where Madadi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1841 in 1.8M301Madadi89
SE Sweden1071 in 95K107—4
IN India431 in 31M43Madadi13
NO Norway221 in 249K22——
BE Belgium141 in 837K14Madadi4
CH Switzerland111 in 764K11—1
DK Denmark51 in 1.2M5——

184 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Madadi is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Algeria

    Also written Mâdädï

  • Arabic surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Algeria, Iran, Morocco, Türkiye

    Also written Madadī, Màdàdi, Mãdädî, Mâdädï

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Madadī

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Honduras, Iran, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Mådadi

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Mohammad Ali Madadi, b. 1959Hamad Madadi, b. 1988Ahmad Madadi, b. 1994

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Madadi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020301#70,147
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010184#98,553
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—107#6,820
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—43#49,188
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—22#40,868
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—15#75,045
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200814#59,177
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202411#56,728
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—5#60,145
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Madadi mean, and where does it come from?
help; aid Recorded by African Muslim Names.
How do you pronounce Madadi?
A machine transcription gives /mɑdədi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Madadi have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 184 people named Madadi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled madadi.
Where is Madadi most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Madadi is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 95 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Madadi?
In the United States, the national register counted 184 people named Madadi in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.

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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, “Madadi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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