Given name
Mamta
“maternal love”
Mamta is a feminine given name from Hindi, meaning “maternal love.”
Original Hindiममता
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mamta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 39
- 0 boys · 39 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1986. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 1980. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,460 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.
Mamta’s family of names
In English usage, Mamta was borrowed from the Hindi form ममता.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mamta
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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