Maeli
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɐɛli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maeli is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 267K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 18Kas Mali
- USUnited States1 in 726Kas Mali
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 Maeli itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 241 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 267K (inferred from the name graph)
73,466 named Mali
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mali in IN India, US United States, ZA South Africa.
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)
Maeli 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 | 73,466as Mali | 1 in 18K | 73K | Mali | 110 |
| NP Nepal | 19,605as Mali | 1 in 1.5K | 20K | — | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | 665as Mali | 1 in 3.2K | 665 | — | 8 |
| US United States | 458as Mali | 1 in 726K | 1.6K | Mali | 241 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 267K | — | Mali | 32 |
| FI Finland | 193as Mali | 1 in 29K | 193 | — | 3 |
| HR Croatia | 49as Mali | 1 in 86K | 49 | — | 1 |
73,466 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; NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 421 | #22,868 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 35 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 32 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 22 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11 | #22,868 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Maeli?
- A machine transcription gives /mɐɛli/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Maeli a male or female name?
- Maeli is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Maeli have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 73 thousand people named Mali, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Maeli?
- In India, the national register counted 73,466 people named Mali, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Maeli?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maeliThe 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, “Maeli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.