Ма
surname · Cyrillic script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ма is a surname written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 232K(inferred from the name graph)
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 145K
- FIFinland1 in 10Kas Ma
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ма itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 145K (inferred from the name graph)
28,452 named Ma, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kyrgyzstan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ма counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 28,452as Ma | 1 in 12K | 38K | — | 46 |
| ES Spain | 1,592as Ma | 1 in 31K | 1.6K | — | 8 |
| RU Russia | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 232K | — | Ма | 107 |
| FI Finland | 550as Ma | 1 in 10K | 550 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 542as Ma | 1 in 19K | 542 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 356as Ma | 1 in 24K | 356 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | 344as Ma | 1 in 16K | 740 | — | 2 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Ма | 9 |
28,452 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ма is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Macedonian, Placed at the end of an utterance as an offensive intensifier (usually when addressing women)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rsk, third-person singular present of мац (mac)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Bulgarian, expresses disbelief, surprise, empathy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In os, prohibitive particle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In chm, whether, if
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yux, take it!
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zheng Heb. 1371CNnot in their usual nameChinese mariner, explorer, and diplomat
- Ma Huanb. 1380CNMing dynasty translator, voyager and writer
- Ma Fuxiangb. 1876CNChinese politician (1876–1932)
- Ma Bufangb. 1903CNChinese politician (1903-1975)
- Ma Ying-jeoub. 1950TW12th and 13th President of Republic of China(Taiwan)
- Yo-Yo Mab. 1955FRAmerican cellist (born 1955)
- Tzi Mab. 1962USHong Kong American actor
- Jack Mab. 1964CNChinese businessman
- Ma Huatengb. 1971CNChinese internet entrepreneur (1971-)
- Ma Jinb. 1988CNChinese badminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Ма have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 28 thousand people named Ma, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ма?
- In the United States, the national register counted 28,452 people named Ma in 2010, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ма?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D0%BC%D0%B0The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ма”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.