Mawla
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: helper, protector. Al-Mawla J ,al!, the Lord Supreme: one of the names of Allah
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mawla is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Denmark.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
helper, protector. Al-Mawla J ,al!, the Lord Supreme: one of the names of Allah. te Lb easla LY ge cl Sa rSLSN! gat! "You (Allah) are our Lord Supreme, give us victory over the disbelieving people." (surat al-Bagarah 2:286). See Nasir jue; DAGIG Goda
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mawla is read(measured from records)
Mawla is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Arabic37%
helper, protector. Al-Mawla J ,al!, the Lord Supreme: one of the names of Allah. te Lb easla LY ge cl Sa rSLSN! gat! "You (Allah) are our Lord Supreme, give us victory over the disbelieving people." (surat al-Bagarah 2:286). See Nasir jue; DAGIG Goda
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
helper, protector
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- English20%
A patron or protector.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Bangla6.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mawla in Bangla.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mawla counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | — | 8 | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 6 | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 6 | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8 | #46,911 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 6 | #75,257 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #154,702 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #276,309 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #87,438 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Mawla mean, and where does it come from?
- helper, protector. Al-Mawla J ,al!, the Lord Supreme: one of the names of Allah. Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- In which country does Mawla have the most bearers?
- Mawla is most frequently recorded in Denmark.
What do you want to know about Mawla?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mawlaThe 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, “Mawla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.