^As far as I've researched and know, she doesn't have a "formal" name. "Ma" is simply a slang name for someone's mother or "
Mom", which the LK 1.5 creators also referred to her in the production notes.
It seems that the influence for this character's name may have come from Nathan Lane, since being Timon's film voice actor and this is this meerkat's mother being talked about. I've noticed many Brooklyn type people on TV refer to their own mother as that: "Ma". So it wouldn't surprise me at all if this is the case.
But it doesn't bother me at all. I'm used to calling Ma by this official name for her since there isn't any other LK character that has that name or is called by that by another character in the franchise.
Though, I've seen in some fan fics where people give her other names like "Honey" or "Maha". But those are names that those authors merely came up with for Timon's mother in their works.
On a side note, I like that Lane has referred to Timon as something about a "New York meerkat" before (it was either from TLK 1 or 1 1/2 media if I remember correctly), because of his voice that he gives to Timon on the films.
"I found a place that was beyond my wildest dreams. But..., it still wasn't home." - Timon; Lion King 1 1/2 (3)
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