Ma-On

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ma-On is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country. Recorded meaning: The Hebrew name Maon (מָעוֹן) means "dwelling," "habitation," or "residence". [6, 8, 10].

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 225K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 5.2M
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 24M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ma-On itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Thailand (inferred from the name graph)

≈360 named มาอ่อน, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
49 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 225K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Ma-OnLatin(measured from records)
มาอ่อนThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled มาอ่อน in TH Thailand and Maon in PH Philippines.

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)

The Hebrew name Maon (מָעוֹן) means "dwelling," "habitation," or "residence". [6, 8, 10]

Sources 1

  • Biblical Names Compiled Database

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ma-On 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-On is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TH Thailand≈360 est.≈1 in 192K#495,624มาอ่อน49
BE Belgium521 in 225K52——
BR Brazil411 in 5.2M41——
IN India51 in 265M5—2
PH Philippines≈4 est.≈1 in 24M—Maon7

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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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-On is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Malaysia, Singapore

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Maon, Ma'On

5 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-On 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-On mean, and where does it come from?
The Hebrew name Maon (מָעוֹן) means "dwelling," "habitation," or "residence". [6, 8, 10] Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
In which country does Ma-On have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 359 people named มาอ่อน in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Ma-On most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ma-On is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 225 thousand people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ma-On?
In Belgium, the national register counted 52 people named Ma-On in 2008, about 1 in 225 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-On”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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