Mursal
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: SSA, 2024
/muɾsal/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Mursal is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 8.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- SOSomalia≈1 in 26K
- SESweden1 in 39K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mursal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Mursal | 5 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | listed | — | 4 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 281K | listed | — | 9 |
| US United States | 502 | 1 in 663K | 349 | Mursal | 83 |
| KE Kenya | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Mursal | 8 |
| SO Somalia | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 19 | — | 7 |
| SE Sweden | 260 | 1 in 39K | 260 | — | 4 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; the az-justice-names register. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Maryam Mursalb. 1950SOSomalian musician
- Ibrahim Mursalb. 1990SONorwegian film director of Sudanese and Somali origins (1990-)
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)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)35 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 349 | #20,543 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 260 | #4,340 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 153 | #20,543 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 81 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 75 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 70 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 59 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 55 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 48 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 41 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 6 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- Is Mursal a male or female name?
- Mursal is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Norway (SSB). We don't publish a percentage split.
- How do you pronounce Mursal?
- It depends on the language: in Swahili /muɾsal/; in Indonesian /mˈursal/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Mursal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Mursal in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mursal.
- How common is the name Mursal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 502 people named Mursal in 2020, about 1 in 663 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mursal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mursalThe 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, “Mursal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.