Mumma
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Origin unidentified. Possibly a respelling of German Mumme
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈməmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mumma is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 138K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 141K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 33K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 268 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
2,359 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Origin unidentified. Possibly a respelling of German Mumme.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mumma 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 | 2,359 | 1 in 141K | 2.4K | Mumma | 268 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Mumma | 21 |
| IT Italy | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 332K | — | Mumma | 3 |
| EG Egypt | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 561K | — | Mumma | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 230K | — | Mumma | 16 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Mumma | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Mumma | 2 |
| EE Estonia | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 41 | Mumma | 6 |
2,359 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the ee-stat-nimed 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)
Mumma is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, alternative form of mummo (“grandma”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, a mixture of porter and lager, often also including fortified wine, and containing at least one sweet ingredient, like sugar, soft drink (usually sockerdricka or julmust), or just a sweet fortified wine; sometimes also includes spirits (especially gin) and spices (especially cardamom)
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)
- Walter M. Mummab. 1890USAmerican politician (1890-1961)
- Morton C. Mummab. 1904USAmerican admiral
- Albert G. Mummab. 1906USAmerican admiral (1906-1997)
- Gordon Mummab. 1935USAmerican composer
- Dick Mummab. 1963USAmerican basketball player
- Michael J. MummaUSAmerican astrobiologist
- John L. MummaUSPh.D. Carnegie Mellon University 2006
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 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #13,010 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,218 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.3K | #12,950 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 41 | #2,451 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 27 | #4,081 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Mumma mean, and where does it come from?
- Origin unidentified. Possibly a respelling of German Mumme. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mumma?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈməmə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mumma have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Mumma, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mumma.
- How common is the name Mumma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,359 people named Mumma in 2010, about 1 in 141 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mummaThe 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, “Mumma”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.