Given name
Mamie
Mamie is connected with Margaret and Mary in English naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
In English use, Mamie is used as a shortened form of Margaret. In English use, Mamie is used as a shortened form of Mary.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mamie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 78,185
- 278 boys · 77,907 girls
- Most popular year
- 1919
- 1,800 babies
- 2025
- 19
- #6,249 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −11%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 19 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 6,249 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 10.7% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 1,793 in 1919. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 12,195 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mamie’s family of names
In English usage, Mamie is a diminutive of Mary. Mamie is a form of Margaret. Mamie is a short form of Mary.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 13
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Margaretfull form
- Maryfull form · English
- Mavisfull form · English
- Minniediminutive · English
- Mamevariant
- Mamivariant
- Maymevariant
- Maymievariant
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Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mamie
- Mamie EisenhowerFirst Lady of the United States from 1953 to 19611896–1979
- Mamie GummerAmerican actressborn 1983
- Mamie Van DorenAmerican actressborn 1931
- Mamie SmithAmerican vaudeville singer (1891–1946)
- Mamie TillAfrican American schoolteacher1921–2003
- Mamie Phipps ClarkAmerican psychologist1917–1983
- Mamie BuazoDR Congolese footballerborn 1988
- Mamie LockeAmerican politician and educatorborn 1954
- Mamie Shields PyleAmerican women's suffrage leader (1866-1949)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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