Màsala

surname · Latin script

Màsala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: baklja, faklja, zublja, fenjer.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 120K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 121K
  • BEBelgium1 in 165K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (measured from records)

191 people

Sources
129 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 120K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Masala in BE Belgium, CH Switzerland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

baklja, faklja, zublja, fenjer

Sources 3

  • The African book of names
  • Wiktionary
  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Màsala counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Màsala is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India1911 in 6.9M191—2
BR Brazil1871 in 1.1M187——
AR Argentina801 in 568K80——
BE Belgium711 in 165K71Masala10
CH Switzerland701 in 120K70Masala4
HR Croatia351 in 121K35——
FI Finland301 in 186K30——

191 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Màsala is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, France, United Kingdom

    Also written Masala, Másala

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Màsala under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Màsala mean, and where does it come from?
baklja, faklja, zublja, fenjer Recorded by The African book of names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
In which country does Màsala have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 191 people named Màsala, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Màsala most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Màsala is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 120 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Màsala?
In India, the national register counted 191 people named Màsala, about 1 in 6.9 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Màsala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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