Maymuna
Maymūna (ميمونة) is a female Arabic name. Variant spellings in English include: Maimoonah, Maymoonah, Maymuna(h), Maimouna, Mahmuna and Mehmoona, Maimuna, Mymouna(h), Mymona. Its meaning is “Auspicious, Blessed, Loved, The fortunate one”
- Arabic
Meaning & Origin of Maymuna
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Maymūna (ميمونة) is a female Arabic name. Variant spellings in English include: Maimoonah, Maymoonah, Maymuna(h), Maimouna, Mahmuna and Mehmoona, Maimuna, Mymouna(h), Mymona. Its meaning is “Auspicious, Blessed, Loved, The fortunate one”
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Arabic
The Story of Maymuna
American parents first put Maymuna on the record books as a baby girl name in 2005, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2024, when 16 Maymunas were born — ranking #6,903 that year. The 2010s were its strongest decade, accounting for roughly 56% of all recorded Maymunas. Its most recent appearance in the national data came in 2024 (16 births); the name has since faded from the published rankings. In total, more than 147 Maymunas have been born in the U.S. since records began in 1880, spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Maymuna
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Maymuna. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Notable people named Maymuna
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- Maymuna Abu Bakr , Yemeni poet, songwriter, and television director
- Maïmouna Hélène Diarra , Malian actress
- Maimouna Diarra , Senegalese basketball player
- Maïmouna Doucouré , French film director
- Maïmouna Guerresi , Italian artist
- Maïmouna Gueye , Franco-Senegalese actress
- Maymunah bint al-Harith , wife of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
- Maymunah Kadiri , Nigerian mental health advocate
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Names that sound like Maymuna
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About the name Maymuna
Maymuna is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 2005 and has accumulated 147 births in the dataset. Maymuna's peak popularity came in 2024 when it ranked #6,903. Use the chart and map above to compare Maymuna's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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