Mba
surname · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mba is a surname, most frequently recorded in Gabon, where it is the 4th most common surname. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Initialism of master's of business administration (a college degree).
- GAGabon1 in 21◐
- ESSpain1 in 43K
- FRFrance1 in 102K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.5K ●
- Sources
- 164 ●
- 1 in 43K ◐
across 8 countries
6.4K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Mbä in DZ Algeria.
Meaning & origin●
Initialism of master's of business administration (a college degree).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GA Gabon | #4 | 24,793 | 371 rec. | — | 24K | Mba | 43 |
| FR France | — | 3,405 | 2.9K rec. | — | — | Mba | 164 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,155△ | 223 rec. | 1 in 43K | 1.2K | Mba | 29 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 858 | 504 rec. | — | — | Mba | 35 |
| CM Cameroon | #34 | 711 | 744 rec. | — | — | Mba | 27 |
| US United States | — | 320 | 820 rec. | 1 in 1M | 521 | Mba | 108 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 107 | 14 rec. | — | — | Mba | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 85 | 58 rec. | — | — | Mba | 34 |
| CA Canada | — | 73 | 68 rec. | — | — | Mba | 31 |
| GH Ghana | — | 42 | 33 rec. | — | — | Mba | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 17 | 16 rec. | 1 in 494K | 17 | — | 19 |
| BE Belgium | — | 13 | 143 rec. | 1 in 902K | 13 | Mba | 19 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French31K41%
- English22K29%
- Spanish5.2K7%
- Swahili5.1K7%
- Indonesian2.8K4%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 31,208 | 41% |
| English | 22,127 | 29% |
| Spanish | 5,151 | 7% |
| Swahili | 5,083 | 7% |
| Indonesian | 2,772 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Mba is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, dandruff
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, lang., Congo
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In men, top; prep., on, upon. Pé wu-mba, x., house-top
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In men, a response of acceptance and thank- fulness
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In nzd, palm nut
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●
- Germain Mbab. 1932GAGabonese politician (1932-1971)
- Timo Mbab. 1998GQEquatorial Guinean association football player
- Sheldon Mbaactor
- Miriam Mba BlázquezESresearcher
- Jules Clement MbaZAPh.D. University of the Western Cape 2011
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●
Attested in 26 sources across 16 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 34 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Mba?
- We estimate roughly 1.5 thousand people bear Mba (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Mba have the most bearers?
- Mba is most frequently recorded in Gabon, where it is most often spelled mba.
- How common is Mba compared with other names?
- In Gabon, Mba is the 4th most common surname of 6,449 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Mba mean?
- Recorded meaning: Initialism of master's of business administration (a college degree).
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mba” — the 4th most common surname in Gabon. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.