Mamah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: to chew, to masticate, to munch
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mamah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 6.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 14K
- TGTogo≈1 in 20K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈41,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
to chew, to masticate, to munch
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mamah 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | listed | Mamah | 70 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Mamah | 13 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Mamah | 5 |
| TG Togo | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 1 | — | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Mamah | 10 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Mamah | 2 |
| SG Singapore | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Mamah | 6 |
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: Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024). 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)
Mamah is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Sundanese, word used to order a child to eat; also the usual word for ‘to eat’ of a small child
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In btd, chew food to give to an infant; food that is regurgitated by a bird for its young
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In zlm, maceration in the closed mouth, of the way animals chew
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In pzh, older brother of a man or woman, wife’s elder brother
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Javanese, to chew; to argue with; to do without difficulty
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 7 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Mamah mean, and where does it come from?
- to chew, to masticate, to munch Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Mamah a male or female name?
- Mamah 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 Mamah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Mamah in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mamah.
- How common is the name Mamah?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41,000 people in Indonesia have Mamah as their first given name, about 1 in 6.6 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mamahThe 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, “Mamah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.