Mammen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Lallname; from a reduplicated baby syllable
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmæmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mammen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 294K(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 2.2M
- DKDenmark1 in 30K
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)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- 1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
1,131 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Lallname; from a reduplicated baby syllable.
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mammen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,131 | 1 in 294K | 1.2K | Mammen | 144 |
| IN India | 602 | 1 in 2.2M | 602 | Mammen | 85 |
| DK Denmark | 194 | 1 in 30K | 194 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 41 | 1 in 421K | 41 | Mammen | 5 |
| NO Norway | 24 | 1 in 228K | 24 | — | 1 |
1,131 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Mammen 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.
German; East Frisian patronymic from the nursery name Mamme, linked to Middle High German mamme, memme ‘mother’s breast’ (Latin mamma).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Indian (Kerala); variant of Thomas among Kerala Christians, with the TamilMalayalam third person masculine singular suffix -n. It is only found as a personal name in Kerala, but in the U.S. has come to be used as a family name among Kerala Christians.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
English (of Norman origin); from the Old French personal name Maismon, Maimon, of unknown etymology.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, patronymischer schwacher Genitiv zu einer Rufnamenform mit megin/magan-; 205 Belege
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In Dutch, plural of mam
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)
- Oommen Mammenb. 1830Indian Anglican priest
- Jeanne Mammenb. 1890DEGerman painter (1890-1976)
- Jan Mammenb. 1899NLDutch artist (1899-1978)
- Jens Mammenb. 1942DKresearcher, Aalborg Universitet
- Enno Mammenb. 1955DEGerman statistician
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Mammen mean, and where does it come from?
- Lallname; from a reduplicated baby syllable. Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Mammen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmæmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mammen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Mammen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mammen.
- Where is Mammen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mammen is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 30 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mammen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,131 people named Mammen in 2010, about 1 in 294 thousand 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/mammenThe 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, “Mammen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.