Makka
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Makka is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Sacred place; Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
- INIndia1 in 1.9M(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 376K
- ITItaly≈1 in 4.7M
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 Makka 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 376K (inferred from the name graph)
4,012 named Mickey, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mokka in US United States, IN India.
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)
Sacred place; Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Makka 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 | 4,012as Mickey | 1 in 83K | 17K | Mokka | 22 |
| IN India | 686 | 1 in 1.9M | 686 | Mokka | 36 |
| NL Netherlands | 46 | 1 in 376K | 649 | — | 3 |
| FI Finland | 45as Mokka | 1 in 124K | 184 | — | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 4.7M | 4 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 4as Mikki | 1 in 1.5M | 519 | — | — |
4,012 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling mickey. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Makka is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, Mecca (a large city in the Hejaz, Saudi Arabia, the holiest place in Islam)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, to plot, to machinate, to scheme
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mdh, Mecca
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
‘메카(Mecca)’의 다른 이름.
as a word국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
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)
Attested in 32 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.6K | #2,475 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 686 | #7,277 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 46 | #32,699 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- What does the name Makka mean, and where does it come from?
- Sacred place; Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- In which country does Makka have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Mickey, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Makka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Makka is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 376 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Makka?
- In India, the national register counted 686 people named Makka, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/makkaThe 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, “Makka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.