Entry № 6137 · Akan origin

Maame Maame — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAH-meh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Akan
Meaning
"Mother; lady"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "mother; lady".

Maame means mother, or a respected lady, in Akan. It carries warmth, nurture and dignity.

Mother; lady — a Akan name.

The name in its native script.

Maame
Transliteration
Maame
Pronunciation
/ ˈma.me /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Maame stands.

Maame does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Maames before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Maame.

The number behind Maame.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Maame reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.