Maulavi
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maulavi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 66M(measured from records)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 279Kas Moulavi
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 407Kas Moulavi
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 Maulavi 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)
- Sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 66M (inferred from the name graph)
≈130 named Moulavi, est.
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Moulavi in US United States, SA Saudi Arabia, KW Kuwait and 1 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maulavi 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 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 279K | — | Maulavi | 2 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 407K | — | Moulavi | 6 |
| IN India | 20 | 1 in 66M | 20 | Maulavi | 30 |
| US United States | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 18M | listed | Moulavi | 5 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Moulavi | 3 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 592K | — | Moulavi | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 3as Moulavi | 1 in 2.8M | 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 911 | #616 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 36 | #14,478 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 20 | #78,521 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Maulavi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 131 people named Moulavi in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Maulavi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maulavi is densest in India — about 1 in 66 million people — even though Afghanistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Maulavi?
- In India, the national register counted 20 people named Maulavi, about 1 in 66 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maulaviThe 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, “Maulavi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.