Nalla
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of nullah
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nəɛɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nalla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 162K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 75K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 157 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)
8,162 people
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alternative form of nullah.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nalla 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 8,162 | 1 in 162K | 8.2K | Nalla | 121 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Nalla | 11 |
| US United States | 286 | 1 in 1.2M | 606 | Nalla | 157 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 170K | — | Nalla | 10 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 330K | — | Nalla | 5 |
| SG Singapore | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Nalla | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | 30 | 1 in 113K | 30 | — | — |
8,162 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Nalla 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 Swedish, to take (something relatively inconsequential) without permission; to pinch, to filch
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(measured from records)
- Shahed Nallab. 2000ZAresearcher
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 6 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nalla mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of nullah. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Nalla?
- A machine transcription gives /nəɛɫə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Nalla have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 8.2 thousand people named Nalla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nalla.
- How common is the name Nalla?
- In India, the national register counted 8,162 people named Nalla, about 1 in 162 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nallaThe 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, “Nalla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.