Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Mamadu isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2014. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mamadu through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16
- 16 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,504 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,504 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mamadu’s family of names
In English usage, Mamadu has a related form in MAMADOU. Mamadu has a conventional equivalent in the Bosnian form MEHMED. Mamadu has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form MAHOMA.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Mamadu has relatives in 3 languages.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mamadu
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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