Jalali
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from an adjectival derivative of Arabic jaldl ‘majesty’, ‘glory’, or denoting a descendant of someone named with this word
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/jɑɫəʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jalali is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- IRIran≈1 in 51K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 147K
- USUnited States1 in 463K
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 Jalali 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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 225 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
from an adjectival derivative of Arabic jaldl ‘majesty’, ‘glory’, or denoting a descendant of someone named with this word. It is also found in compound names such as Jaldl ud-Din ‘Glory of Religion’. Jalal ud-Dln Rumi (1207-73) was a great Islamic mystic poet. Jalal ud-Din Akbar (1556-1605) was one of the greatest of the Mughal emperors (see Akbar).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jalali 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 | #337 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 1 | Jalali | 10 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 75K | 3 | Jalali | 25 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Jalali | 60 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Jalali | 14 |
| US United States | — | 719 | 1 in 463K | 981 | Jalali | 225 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Jalali | 30 |
| NO Norway | — | 150 | 1 in 36K | 150 | Jalali | 7 |
| GE Georgia | — | 109as ჯალალი | 1 in 37K | 109 | Jalali | 11 |
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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election. 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)
Jalali is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
high, majesty
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
In Swahili, A name for God.
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)
- Shakeb Jalalib. 1934INPakistani poet
- Mohammad Hossein Jalalib. 1938IRIranian military officer
- Bahman Jalalib. 1944IRIranian photographer (1944–2010)
- Ahmad Jalalib. 1949IRIranian philosopher
- Ahmad Reza Djalalib. 1971IRnot in their usual nameIranian-Swedish disaster medicine doctor, lecturer and researcher
- Babak Jalalib. 1978IRIranian film editor and film director
- Ali Jalalib. 1979IRactor
- Sadi Jalalib. 1995CAIndian-born Canadian Professional Soccer Player
- Shakir JalaliAFGovernor of the Afghanistan Central Bank
- Rostam JalaliIRresearcher
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)
Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 981 | #26,238 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 719 | #32,079 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 542 | #38,395 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 150 | #10,450 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 3 | #253 |
| AF Afghanistan | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #152 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Jalali mean, and where does it come from?
- from an adjectival derivative of Arabic jaldl ‘majesty’, ‘glory’, or denoting a descendant of someone named with this word. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Jalali?
- A machine transcription gives /jɑɫəʎi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jalali have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Jalali in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jalali.
- How common is the name Jalali?
- In the United States, the national register counted 719 people named Jalali in 2010, about 1 in 463 thousand residents.
- How common is Jalali compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Jalali is the 337th most common surname of 11,723 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jalaliThe 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, “Jalali” — the 337th most common surname in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.