Mbalé
surname · Latin script
Mbalé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 20M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.9M (inferred from the name graph)
3 people, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled M'Bale in BE Belgium, FR France.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mbalé 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | M'Bale | 10 |
| FR France | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 20M | — | M'Bale | 35 |
| ZM Zambia | — | — | 2 | — | 3 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | 4 |
3 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008, counting the spelling mbale. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Mbalé is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In men, hoop to climb palm trees
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Mbalé have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 3 people named Mbalé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled M'Bale.
- Where is Mbalé most common?
- Mbalé is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.9 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mbalé?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 3 people named Mbalé in 2008, about 1 in 3.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Mbalé?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mbal%C3%A9The 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, “Mbalé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.