Mame

Where Mame comes from

Mame hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #492 among girls — 12 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #447
    14 babies named Mame — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1893
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1984
    Mame Niang born
    Senegalese footballer
  5. 1992
    Mame Thiam born
    Senegalese association football player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Mame Thiam · Senegalese association football player, born 1992
  • Mame Niang · Senegalese footballer, born 1984
  • Mame Younousse Dieng · Senegalese writer, 1939–2016
  • Mame Diodio Diouf · Senegalese basketball player, born 1984
  • Mame Bineta Sané · Senegalese actress, born 2000

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.