Mamma
org · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mamma is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Portuguese, recorded as Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of mama.
- USUnited States≈1 in 5.2M(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden≈1 in 77K
- NONorway≈1 in 258K
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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 77K (inferred from the name graph)
≈350 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sweden, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mam-Ma in PH Philippines.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mamma is read(measured from records)
Mamma is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese40%
Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of mama.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English35%
The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian14%
mom (US), mommy (US), mum (UK), mummy (UK)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French7.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mamma in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mamma 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | 1 | — | 6 |
| SE Sweden | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 77K | 3 | — | 6 |
| IT Italy | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 693K | listed | — | 7 |
| US United States | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | — | Mamma | 62 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 722K | listed | — | — |
| PH Philippines | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Mam-Ma | 4 |
| NO Norway | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 258K | 4 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 103 | — | 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); the xinhua-italian-manual register; the dz-kaggle-names register. 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)
Mamma is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, mama, mother (chiefly Southwest Finnish, Satakunta, Uusimaa, Kymenlaakso, South Karelia)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, mom (US), mommy (US), mama (US), mum (UK), mummy (UK)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Faroese, mom, mum (colloquial word for mother)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Veronika Mammab. 1872DEHolocaust victim (born 1872)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 274 | #11,316 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 11 | #16,602 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #33,051 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Where does the name Mamma come from?
- The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Mamma mean?
- In Portuguese, Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of mama.
- In which country does Mamma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 349 people named Mamma in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mamma?
- In Spain, the national register counted 7 people named Mamma, about 1 in 7.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Mamma?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mammaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Mamma”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.