Maule

loc · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Maule is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Maule (a region of Chile).

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  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
229 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Maule (a region of Chile)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Maule counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Maule is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1.7KMaule229
IN India—1.2K—14
BR Brazil—284—3
CZ Czechia—180——
ES Spain—95—8

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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Maule is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Mäule

  • Spanish name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Chile, Spain, France, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Mäule

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Mäule

  • German surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany

    Also written Mäule, Maeule

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Maule is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, to eat by itself, without appropriate accompanying food(s) (e.g. eating the spread without bread, or beef without potatoes)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Riteņa caurā, asij uzmaucamā vidus daļa, kurā iestiprināti spieķi; ratu rumba

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Dziļi uz acīm un ausīm uzmaucama cepure

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Ceļā dziļi izbraukta gramba

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Govs bez ragiem, tole

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

16001700180019002000Harry Maule, b. 1659William Maule, 1st Earl Panmure, b. 1700William Maule, 1st Baron Panmure, b. 1771Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie, b. 1801Catherine Strickland, b. 1825Agnes Maule Machar, b. 1837John Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie, b. 1847Annabel Maule, b. 1922Cleto Maule, b. 1931Graham Maule, b. 1958

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 29 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Maule
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.7K#16,984
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.5K#17,399
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.4K#19,259
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.2K#4,919
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—284#27,701
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—180#5,895
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—179#9,430
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—11#114,632
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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 Maule mean, and where does it come from?
Maule (a region of Chile) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Maule have the most bearers?
Maule is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled maule.

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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, “Maule”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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