Maimouna
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- my-MOO-na
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,409 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #4,351 for girls
Maimouna is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “blessed; fortunate”. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies) and 4,351st for girls in the US (32 babies).
What does Maimouna mean?
Arabic: West African form of Maymuna
“blessed; fortunate”
Maymuna bint al-Harith was one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad.
Is Maimouna a girl's or a boy's name?
Maimouna is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK and 32 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maimouna in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 267% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Maimouna, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th.
2025 had the most girls named Maimouna of any year since it first appeared, in 2003.
Half of all the girls named Maimouna in the UK since 1996 were born between 2011 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 28 girls in the UK were given Maimouna or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,081, up from #3,409 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.
Maimouna in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,409 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,774 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 1 | #7,377 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
How popular is Maimouna in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,351st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 32 about 1 in 50,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 26% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 32 girls in the US were named Maimouna, making it the 4,351st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 33 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.
2025 had more girls named Maimouna than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Maimouna in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 50 girls in the US were given Maimouna or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,569, up from #4,351 for this spelling alone.
- Maimouna 32
- Maimuna 18
Maimouna in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,351 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,018 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,123 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,790 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,170 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,919 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,259 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,336 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,344 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,651 |
| 2014 | 17 | #6,985 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,642 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,573 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,561 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,600 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,338 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,404 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,095 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,140 |
| 2005 | 20 | #5,994 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,211 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,581 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,438 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,311 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,802 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,478 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,579 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,278 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,127 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
Names like Maimouna
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Hafsa, Amira, Aaliyah, Hiba, Abeeha, Khadija, Zainab, Halima, Rahma, Ayah, Safiya
Other spellings of Maimouna
Maimuna, Maimunah
Names related to Maimouna
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Maimouna: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maimouna, updated 20 October 2026.