M'A
surname · Latin script
Meaning: me + a (third-person singular indicative present form of avoir)
M'A is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 10K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 12K
- NONorway1 in 16K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
28,452 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ma in US United States, ES Spain.
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)me + a (third-person singular indicative present form of avoir)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 28,452 | 1 in 12K | 38K | Ma | 105 |
| ES Spain | 1,592 | 1 in 31K | 1.6K | Ma | 43 |
| FI Finland | 550 | 1 in 10K | 550 | — | 4 |
| SE Sweden | 542 | 1 in 19K | 542 | — | 7 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | M'A | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 356 | 1 in 24K | 356 | — | 6 |
| NO Norway | 344 | 1 in 16K | 740 | — | 5 |
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)M'A is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In nmb, with
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name M'A mean, and where does it come from?
- me + a (third-person singular indicative present form of avoir) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does M'A have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 28 thousand people named M'A, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ma.
- Where is M'A most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, M'A is densest in Finland — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name M'A?
- In the United States, the national register counted 28,452 people named M'A in 2010, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about M'A?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m'aThe 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, “M'A”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.