M A
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
M A is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in South Korea. Recorded meaning: From Hakka 馬／马 (mǎ).
- South Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
no count published
Reference-verified
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 Hakka 馬／马 (mǎ).
Sources 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Russian Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
Where in the world(measured from records)
M A counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | — | 40K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 38K | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 5.4K | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 1.6K | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 740 | — | — |
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: KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10 | #120,154 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name M A mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hakka 馬／马 (mǎ). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Russian Names and 7 other sources.
- Is M A a male or female name?
- M A is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does M A have the most bearers?
- M A is most frequently recorded in South Korea.
What do you want to know about M A?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%20aThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “M A”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.