Mamie is a 19th-century American diminutive of Mary or Margaret — popularized as a pet name in the late 1800s. **A top-25 US baby name from 1880 to 1900**. **Mamie Eisenhower (1896-1979)** — wife of Dwight D. Eisenhower; US First Lady (1953-1961); her bouffant hairstyle and her signature pink became iconic of 1950s American femininity. **Mamie Till-Mobley (1921-2003)** — **American teacher and activist whose 1955 decision to hold an open-casket funeral for her 14-year-old murdered son Emmett Till galvanized the modern civil rights movement** — the photos of his battered face in *Jet* magazine reached an estimated 50,000 attendees and millions more nationwide. **Mamie Smith (1891-1946)** — American singer whose 1920 *Crazy Blues* became the first commercially successful blues recording by a Black artist.
Subject of Chinonye Chukwu's *Till* (2022 film) and Mamie Till's memoir *Death of Innocence* (2003).
Mamie reduces to nine — the number of beloved mother.