Majka

surname · Latin script

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

Majka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 1. nickname from a dialect variant of Mahka ‘left-hander’ (see Manka).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 212K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 5K
  • NONorway1 in 124K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

7,592 people, 2026

Sources
210 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

1. nickname from a dialect variant of Mahka ‘left-hander’ (see Manka). 2. metronymic from a pet form of Maria.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 33 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Majka 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 Majka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland7,5921 in 5K3.8K—2
US United States1,5711 in 212K1.7KMajka210
NO Norway441 in 124K52—1
AR Argentina331 in 1.4M33——
FI Finland151 in 371K15—1
DK Denmark91 in 652K30—1

7,592 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

Majka is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Colombia, Panama

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Majkã

  • Croatian surname17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Croatia, Philippines, Spain

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Maika, Майка, Maïka, Maйka, Мајка

46 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Majka 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 Serbo-Croatian, mother

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Zbigniew Majka, b. 1946Krzysztof Majka, b. 1949Lucyna Błażejczyk-Majka, b. 1950Robert Majka, b. 1962Artur Majka, b. 1967Jolanta Majka, b. 1978Jaroslaw Majka, b. 1979Rafał Majka, b. 1989

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 34 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Majka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263.8K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3.8K#579
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263.8K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3.8K#570
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.7K#16,074
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.6K#17,818
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.5K#18,545
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—44#27,982
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—33—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#42,977
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—9#43,785
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Majka come from?
1. nickname from a dialect variant of Mahka ‘left-hander’ (see Manka). 2. metronymic from a pet form of Maria. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
What does the name Majka mean?
Recorded meaning: 1. nickname from a dialect variant of Mahka ‘left-hander’ (see Manka).
In which country does Majka have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 7.6 thousand people named Majka, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Majka most common?
Majka is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.0 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Majka?
In Poland, the national register counted 7,592 people named Majka in 2026, about 1 in 5.0 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, “Majka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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