Mashal
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Biblical name
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mashal is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- JOJordan≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 42K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 77K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Jordan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Masha'L in EG Egypt, JO Jordan.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Biblical name
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mashal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 82K | listed | — | 37 |
| EG Egypt | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Masha'L | 38 |
| JO Jordan | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Masha'L | 31 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 77K | listed | — | 58 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 533K | listed | — | 3 |
| US United States | 218 | 1 in 1.5M | 348 | — | 77 |
| AT Austria | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 519K | 3 | — | — |
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; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Mashal 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.
Torch.
as a nameThe African book of names
In English, Alternative form of mussaul.
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)
- Khaled Mashalb. 1956PSPalestinian politician
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 35 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 348 | #62,198 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 218 | #85,659 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 117 | #133,114 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Mashal mean, and where does it come from?
- Biblical name Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Mashal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Mashal in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mashal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 218 people named Mashal in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mashalThe 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, “Mashal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.