Maulid
surname · Latin script
Meaning: the birthday of a holy man or prophet, especially Muhammad (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Maulid is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- KEKenya≈1 in 55Kfew records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)the birthday of a holy man or prophet, especially Muhammad
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Maulid is found
(measured from records)Maulid 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #162 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 3 | Maulid | 31 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Maulid | 1 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Maulid | 14 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Maulid | 6 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Maulid | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
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: INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Zubeir Ali Maulidb. 1968TZTanzanian politician
- Ayu Maulidab. 1997IDnot in their usual nameIndonesian People's Consultative Assembly Ambassador, model and beauty pageant titleholder
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maulid mean, and where does it come from?
- the birthday of a holy man or prophet, especially Muhammad Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Maulid?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Maulid in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maulid. After it come Indonesia, Kenya, Philippines and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Maulid?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 3 people named Maulid in 2024, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
- How common is Maulid compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Maulid is the 162nd most common surname of 112,969 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maulidThe 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, “Maulid” — ranked 27th in Tanzania (INEC Special Gazette 2021). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.