Jálil
surname · Latin script
Jálil is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Arabic جَلِيل (jalīl, “great, exalted”).
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 5.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 5.9K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jálil itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Jalil in MY Malaysia, AR Argentina, ID Indonesia and 2 more and Jaleel in PK Pakistan, AE United Arab Emirates.
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)From Arabic جَلِيل (jalīl, “great, exalted”).
Cited for this meaning 9
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- The African book of names
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Jálil is found
(measured from records)Jálil 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #188 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Jalil | 67 |
| PK Pakistan | #368 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | listed | Jaleel | 68 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Jalil | 99 |
| MY Malaysia | #113 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Jalil | 82 |
| MA Morocco | #447 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Jalil | 52 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,522 | 1 in 18K | 2.5K | Jalil | 65 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #756 | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Jaleel | 62 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 Jálil mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic جَلِيل (jalīl, “great, exalted”). Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India and Dictionary of American Family Names and 7 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Jálil?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Jálil in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jalil. After it come Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Morocco; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Jálil?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 2,522 people named Jálil, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Jálil compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Jálil is the 188th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%A1lilThe 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, “Jálil” — the 188th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.