Ma-K
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ma-K is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 80th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *makъ, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂kos.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 226(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 4K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 4.2K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 342 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 226 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, 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 Mak in US United States, CA Canada, HK Hong Kong and 4 more.
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)
- Proto-Slavic*makъ(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*meh₂kos(measured from records)
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *makъ, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂kos.
Sources 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Russian Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ma-K 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Mak | 45 |
| HK Hong Kong | #80 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 226 | — | Mak | 133 |
| MY Malaysia | #876 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Mak | 84 |
| US United States | — | 5,170 | 1 in 64K | 5.4K | Mak | 342 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Mak | 188 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,564 | 1 in 11K | 1.6K | Mak | 59 |
| SG Singapore | #365 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Mak | 106 |
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). 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)
Ma-K 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 aoz, tongue
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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 Ma-K mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Proto-Slavic *makъ, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂kos. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Russian Names and 4 other sources.
- Is Ma-K a male or female name?
- Ma-K 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 Ma-K have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 130 thousand people named Ma-K in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mak.
- How common is the name Ma-K?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,170 people named Ma-K in 2010, about 1 in 64 thousand residents.
- How common is Ma-K compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Ma-K is the 80th most common surname of 8,142 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ma-kThe 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, “Ma-K” — the 80th most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.