The Ma surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 19,030 people carried this name — #1,726 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 14,200 people counted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
360 people named Ma live in Switzerland.
They live in 18 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 184 people named Ma live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 157 people named Ma.
Most of them — 116 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 9 départements, most often Martinique.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Ma.
- Luzzi 1,193 · U.S. census
- Ly 22,990 · U.S. census
- Lynch 114,448 · U.S. census
- Lyon 27,337 · U.S. census
- Lyons 82,258 · U.S. census
- Lys 159 · U.S. census
- Maas 9,410 · U.S. census
- Mabile 470 · U.S. census
- Mabon 757 · U.S. census
- Mabrouk 159 · U.S. census
- Mac 1,859 · U.S. census
- Macaluso 4,522 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Ma is.
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