Alah
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Alah is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. Recorded meaning: »bog, samo kod muslimana«.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 133K(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 41K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 51K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
≈780 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
»bog, samo kod muslimana«
Sources 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alah 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.
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
Alah is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In nij, lose, be overcome (in battle, legal matters); lose things
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In kaw, lose, be defeated, be worsted, give away, succumb
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In nv, sibling (brother or sister) (of the opposite sex)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ban, destroy, defeat, abandon; destruction
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In iba, beaten, defeated; subdue, vanquish
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In zlm, defeat; being worsted in battle
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 18 | #16,985 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #20,739 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #27,490 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #31,598 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Alah mean, and where does it come from?
- »bog, samo kod muslimana« Recorded by Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- In which country does Alah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 784 people named Alah in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alah.
- How common is the name Alah?
- Mondonomo estimates about 780 people in Egypt have Alah as their first surname, about 1 in 133 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alahThe 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, “Alah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.