Máila
given name · Latin script
Máila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Probably borrowed from Swedish malj, from French mail, from Latin malleus.
- FIFinland1 in 2.8K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 13K
- ITItaly≈1 in 23K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Maila in PH Philippines, BR Brazil, FI Finland and 2 more.
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)- Swedishmalj(measured from records)
- Frenchmail(measured from records)
- Latinmalleus(measured from records)
Probably borrowed from Swedish malj, from French mail, from Latin malleus. Metathesis took place in order to avoid the form *malja, which would have been homonymous with malja (“goblet, bowl, cup, chalice”).
Cited for this meaning 3
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Máila 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.
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Máila mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably borrowed from Swedish malj, from French mail, from Latin malleus. Recorded by Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people named Máila?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Máila in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maila. After it come Philippines, Brazil, Italy and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Máila most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Máila is densest in Finland — about 1 in 2.8 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Máila?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 6,014 people named Máila in 2022, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A1ilaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Máila” — ranked 5167th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.