Mamais
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/mamais/(machine-generated) Greek · model-generated · read from μαμαης · uncertain
Mamais is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ghana than in any other country. Mamais is also written Μαμαης in Greek.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
- USUnited States≈1 in 8.2Mfew records
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.
- Ghana (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
≈240 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Mamais in other scripts: Greek
(measured from records)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.
How to pronounce Mamais
- Greek:/mamais/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Mamais is found
(measured from records)Mamais 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Mamais | 1 |
| GR Greece | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Mamais | 18 |
| US United States | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 8.2M | listed | Mamais | 45 |
| IE Ireland | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 348K | — | Mamais | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Mamais | 17 |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | 1 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Mamais 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.
In Galician, second-person plural present indicative of mamar
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Mamais?
- In Greek /mamais/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mamais?
- Mondonomo estimates about 240 people named Mamais in Ghana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mamais. After it come Greece, United States, Ireland and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mamais?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 6 people named Mamais in 2024, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Mamais?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mamaisThe 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, “Mamais”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.