Around the world, Sumala (Sumala 
, สุมาลา ) is quite a common predominantly female, but very infrequently male given name. The given name Sumala is characteristic of Thailand, where it is quite a rare principally female, but scarcely masculine name, India, where it is a rare predominantly girly, but very seldom masculine name, and Nigeria, where it is a very rare epicene name. Also, Sumala is the last name as well as the forename.