Mamai
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məmaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mamai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. Recorded meaning: , n. de tatar (Dm).
- UAUkraine≈1 in 21Kas Мамай(inferred from the name graph)
- KZKazakhstan1 in 28Kas Мамай
- RURussia≈1 in 99Kas Мамай
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mamai itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 named Мамай, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Мамай in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
, n. de tatar (Dm).
Sources 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mamai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Мамай | 36 |
| KE Kenya | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 1 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Мамай | 121 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | 682as Мамай | 1 in 28K | 682 | Мамай | 30 |
| IN India | 322 | 1 in 4.1M | 322 | — | 1 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Мамай | 1 |
| BY Belarus | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Мамай | 9 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners. 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)
Mamai 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 jpx-pro, bean
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Russian, Mamai Kicheevskii, landowner. 1497.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Portuguese, second-person plural imperative of mamar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, mom, mum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malay, senile
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 322 | #12,711 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 310 | #444 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 20 | #2,745 |
| KE Kenya | Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners | 2022 | 1 | #800 |
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 Mamai mean, and where does it come from?
- , n. de tatar (Dm). Recorded by Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc.
- How do you pronounce Mamai?
- A machine transcription gives /məmaɪ/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Mamai have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Мамай in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mamai?
- In India, the national register counted 322 people named Mamai, about 1 in 4.1 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mamaiThe 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, “Mamai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.