girls:
630 births since 1924
#5086 (11th percentile)
overall:
630 births since 1924
#7109 (8th percentile)
The name Ma is the #7,109 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 630 recorded births since 1924. This represents the 8.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,086 (11.0% percentile) for all time with 630 births since 1924.
Ma first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1924 (first recorded for girls in 1924). Birth data for Ma is available in 57 out of the 95 years between 1924 and 2018. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Ma reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #836) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 15 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ma".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Ma. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Ma is pronounced as mah, which has 1 syllables.
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