Mulla
surname · Latin script
Meaning: mulla; learned religious man (African Muslim Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Mulla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 12,295 people, counted by Instate. Mulla is also written หมูหล้า in Thai and മുല്ല in Malayalam.
- GYGuyana1 in 38K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 74Kfew records
- ILIsrael≈1 in 78Kfew records
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 Mulla 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)
12,295 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Mulla in other scripts: Thai and Malayalam
(measured from records)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)mulla; learned religious man
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Mulla is found
(measured from records)Mulla 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 | #563 | 12,295 | 1 in 108K | 12K | Mulla | 162 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Mulla | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Mulla | 10 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Mulla | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Mulla | 72 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Mulla | 10 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Mulla | 11 |
| GY Guyana | — | 20 | 1 in 38K | 20 | — | — |
12,295 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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Mulla is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, A Persian construction probably from the Arabic Mawla ('master', 'leader', 'lord')
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Estonian, genitive singular of muld
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Archaic form of mullah.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, inflection of mullir:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In xdk, obsolete form of mula
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)- Paul Mullab. 1881TRTurkish priest and theologian (1881–1959)
- Stephen Ameyu Martin Mullab. 1964SSSouth Sudanese Roman Catholic archbishop
- Fayad Mullab. 1980ATAustrian politician and chairman of the left-wing, ecosocialist party Der Wandel
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)38 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mulla mean, and where does it come from?
- mulla; learned religious man Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mulla?
- In India, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Mulla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mulla. After it come United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Tanzania and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mulla?
- In India, the national register counted 12,295 people named Mulla, about 1 in 108 thousand residents.
- How common is Mulla compared with other names?
- In India, Mulla is the 563rd most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mullaThe 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, “Mulla” — ranked 866th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.