Falah
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Indonesian: success
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Falah is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.9M
- IQIraq≈1 in 8.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Iraq, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
success
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Falah is read(measured from records)
Falah is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Indonesian33%
success
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic26%
success, prosperity
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- French11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Falah in French.
- English7.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Falah in English.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Falah 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Falah | 122 |
| IQ Iraq | #350 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | 1 | Falah | 58 |
| MA Morocco | #775 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Falah | 43 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 27K | listed | Falah | 62 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 169K | listed | Falah | 31 |
| KW Kuwait | #756 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Falah | 50 |
| US United States | — | 178 | 1 in 1.9M | 291 | Falah | 114 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Falah is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
' security; happiness;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Prosperidad
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In ami, ash; cinder
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ami, ember
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nico Falahb. 1995USAmerican football player (b. 1995)
- Salah FalahLBLebanese football player
- Ibrahim FalahMVMP for Inguraidhoo since 2024
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 291 | #72,089 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 178 | #101,247 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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)
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
- What does the name Falah mean, and where does it come from?
- success Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Falah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Falah in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled falah.
- How common is the name Falah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 178 people named Falah in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
- How common is Falah compared with other names?
- In Iraq, Falah is the 350th most common surname of 30,136 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/falahThe 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, “Falah” — the 350th most common surname in Iraq. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.