Ma — girls' name

What the Data Says About Ma

The Social Security Administration has registered 630 babies named Ma between 1924 and 2018, spanning 95 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ma currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 31 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ma performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 217 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Ma shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 75 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Ma in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ma in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 630 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.