Mah
loc · Latin script
Meaning: moon
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mah is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 12K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 14K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 315 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Màh in DZ Algeria, TN Tunisia and Maeh in US United States.
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)
moon
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mah 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | — | 34 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Màh | 6 |
| SN Senegal | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 1 | — | 10 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 1.1K | — | — |
| TN Tunisia | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Màh | 6 |
| US United States | 357 | 1 in 932K | 2.6K | Maeh | 315 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register. 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)
Mah is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ko-pro, 1 rain, rainy season 2 southern wind
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In ang, first/third-person singular preterite indicative of mīgan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Marshallese.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Sundanese, unique marker of emphasis, often untranslatable
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bar, Used to express surprise, shock or amazement.
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)
- Ma Xishengb. 899CNnot in their usual nameperson (CBDB = 195821)
- Ma Do-Sikb. 1944KRnot in their usual nameactor
- Ma Heung‑Sikb. 1948KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Ma Kwang-soob. 1951KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean poet, novelist, and scholar (1951–2017)
- Edwin M. Leeb. 1952USnot in their usual nameMayor of San Francisco from 2011 to 2017
- Marcos Benjamin Leeb. 1977KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Yoo Da-inb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Ma Jae-Yoonb. 1987KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean electronic sports player
- Ma Sang-hoonb. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player (1991-)
- Ma Se-geonb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean fencer
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)
Attested in 36 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 277 | #26,192 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 80 | #26,192 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 5 | — |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 1 | #70 |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mah mean, and where does it come from?
- moon Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- In which country does Mah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Mah in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 357 people named Mah in 2020, about 1 in 932 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mahThe 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, “Mah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.