Jalla
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jalla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the Arabic يَاٱللَّٰه (yāllāh, “hurry up!”), introduced to Finnish by peacekeeping troops who have served in the Middle East.
- INIndia1 in 734K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 221K
- FIFinland≈1 in 555K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 221K (inferred from the name graph)
1,807 people
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the Arabic يَاٱللَّٰه (yāllāh, “hurry up!”), introduced to Finnish by peacekeeping troops who have served in the Middle East.
Sources 2
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jalla 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 | 1,807 | 1 in 734K | 1.8K | Jalla | 56 |
| PH Philippines | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 221K | — | Jalla | 5 |
| FR France | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 816K | 14 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | listed | Jalla | 79 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 680K | — | Jalla | 4 |
| FI Finland | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 555K | 10 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | — |
1,807 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; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Jalla 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 Maltese, Followed by an imperfect verb, it expresses the optative, i.e. a wish or request.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, come on, c’mon
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In smj, foolish, naive
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, diarrhea
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pi, wet dirt
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In se, crazy
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3.5K | #963 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.8K | #3,394 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 6 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jalla mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Arabic يَاٱللَّٰه (yāllāh, “hurry up!”), introduced to Finnish by peacekeeping troops who have served in the Middle East. Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Jalla have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Jalla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jalla.
- How common is the name Jalla?
- In India, the national register counted 1,807 people named Jalla, about 1 in 734 thousand residents.
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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, “Jalla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.