Mả

surname · Latin script

Meaning: tomb; grave

Mả is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Vietnam it is the 92nd most common surname.

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam≈1 in 9.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • FIFinland1 in 10K
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 11K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

28,452 people, 2010

Sources
122 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 9.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Vietnam, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mã in US United States, VN Vietnam, ES Spain and 1 more and Mä in DZ Algeria.

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(measured from records)

tomb; grave

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mả 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.

Where Mả is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—28,4521 in 12K38KMã107
VN Vietnam#92≈11,000 est.≈1 in 9.1KlistedMã122
DZ Algeria—≈3,900 est.≈1 in 11K—Mä7
ES Spain—1,5921 in 31K1.6KMã14
TN Tunisia—≈880 est.≈1 in 13K—Mã4
FI Finland—5501 in 10K550—1

28,452 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling ma. 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); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mả is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname39 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, India, Mexico

    Also written Ma, Mă, Mà, Mã, Mä

  • Arabic surname116 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia

    Languages: Arabic, Maltese

    Also written Ma, Mặ, Ḿą, Mã, Mä

  • Spanish given name81 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Spain, France, Canada

    Languages: Spanish, French

    Also written Ma, M-A, Mà, M'A, Mã

  • Indonesian given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written Ma, Ma', Mã, Mà, M-A

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mả under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mả mean, and where does it come from?
tomb; grave Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Mả have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 28 thousand people named Mả, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mã.
How common is the name Mả?
In the United States, the national register counted 28,452 people named Mả in 2010, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
How common is Mả compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Mả is the 92nd most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.

What do you want to know about Mả?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%E1%BA%A3

The 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, “Mả” — the 92nd most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Mả parses inside a full name →