Meaning not yet researched.
Mamadou: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 92 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,543 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,543 in 2003; #1,760 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mamadou in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,760 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #1,543.
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Mamadou: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 92 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,543 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 106 (2024).
In 2025, 92 US boys were named Mamadou, making it the 1,760th most common boys’ name of the year, down 143 places from #1,617 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 106 boys named Mamadou in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,543, reached in 2003. The most boys given the name in a single year was 106, in 2024. For comparison, it was #2,179 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mamadou in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 7 babies. In all, 1,924 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 654 babies named Mamadou.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 704 US boys were named Mamadou; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 106. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,566 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mamadou ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #390 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Mahamadou, Mamoudou and Mamadu are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mahamadou (405), Mamoudou (104), Mamadu (16).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Mamadou in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 45 | #390 | #600 |
| Ohio | 9 | #910 | #818 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,060 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,091 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,477 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 92 | #1,760 |
| 2024 | — | — | 106 | #1,617 |
| 2023 | — | — | 63 | #2,261 |
| 2022 | — | — | 56 | #2,484 |
| 2021 | — | — | 71 | #2,072 |
| 2020 | — | — | 48 | #2,643 |
| 2019 | — | — | 61 | #2,280 |
| 2018 | — | — | 66 | #2,131 |
| 2017 | — | — | 66 | #2,102 |
| 2016 | — | — | 75 | #1,951 |
| 2015 | — | — | 63 | #2,179 |
| 2014 | — | — | 51 | #2,480 |
| 2013 | — | — | 54 | #2,352 |
| 2012 | — | — | 66 | #2,084 |
| 2011 | — | — | 64 | #2,097 |
| 2010 | — | — | 64 | #2,109 |
| 2009 | — | — | 74 | #1,936 |
| 2008 | — | — | 53 | #2,421 |
| 2007 | — | — | 80 | #1,824 |
| 2006 | — | — | 67 | #2,001 |
| 2005 | — | — | 71 | #1,829 |
| 2004 | — | — | 61 | #1,984 |
| 2003 | — | — | 83 | #1,543 |
| 2002 | — | — | 61 | #1,859 |
| 2001 | — | — | 61 | #1,833 |
| 2000 | — | — | 43 | #2,282 |
| 1999 | — | — | 39 | #2,321 |
| 1998 | — | — | 40 | #2,260 |
| 1997 | — | — | 29 | #2,724 |
| 1996 | — | — | 21 | #3,359 |
| 1995 | — | — | 18 | #3,646 |
| 1994 | — | — | 16 | #4,029 |
| 1993 | — | — | 14 | #4,373 |
| 1992 | — | — | 13 | #4,486 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #6,999 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #6,892 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).