Ma-At

surname · Latin script

Ma-At is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 2,718 people, counted by CBG Familienamenbank in 2007. Recorded meaning: from the personal name Maat, a short form of Mathias (see Matthew) or, with loss of -r-, of Martin.

  • NLNetherlands1 in 6.4K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 186K
  • DKDenmark1 in 391K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Netherlands (measured from records)

2,718 people, 2007

Record sources
142 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Maat in PH Philippines, US United States, NL Netherlands.

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)

from the personal name Maat, a short form of Mathias (see Matthew) or, with loss of -r-, of Martin.

Cited for this meaning 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The African book of names

Where the surname Ma-At is found

(measured from records)

Ma-At 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 Ma-At is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands2,7181 in 6.4K2.7KMaat57
US United States3371 in 987K408Maat142
PH Philippines≈220 est.≈1 in 524K—Maat27
FI Finland301 in 186K30—1
BE Belgium211 in 558K21—8
DK Denmark151 in 391K15—1

2,718 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Ma-At is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Netherlands, Philippines, United States

    Also written Maat, Maât, Mààt, Mâat, Ma'At

  • Malay surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Maat, Ma'At, Ma’at

  • Thai surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand

    Also written มาอาจ

8 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 Ma-At 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 Ma-At mean, and where does it come from?
from the personal name Maat, a short form of Mathias (see Matthew) or, with loss of -r-, of Martin. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The African book of names.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Ma-At?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Ma-At, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maat. After it come United States, Philippines, Finland and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Ma-At most common?
Ma-At is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.4 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Ma-At?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,718 people named Ma-At in 2007, about 1 in 6.4 thousand residents.

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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, “Ma-At” — ranked 403rd in the Netherlands (CBG Familienamenbank, 2007). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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