Meesala
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Meesala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 137K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 5.1Kas Mosala
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 2M
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 Meesala 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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 137K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 named Mosala, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mosala in ZA South Africa.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meesala 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Mosala | 31 |
| IN India | 9,650 | 1 in 137K | 9.7K | Meesala | 81 |
| BR Brazil | 187as Masala | 1 in 1.1M | 187 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Meesala | 2 |
| US United States | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 4M | listed | Meesala | 59 |
| BE Belgium | 71as Masala | 1 in 165K | 71 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 70as Masala | 1 in 120K | 70 | — | — |
| LS Lesotho | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 127K | 2 | — | 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; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Lesotho IEC 2022 National Assembly candidate lists. 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 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 19K | #60 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 9.7K | #992 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #37,740 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Meesala have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Mosala in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Meesala most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Meesala is densest in India — about 1 in 137 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Meesala?
- In India, the national register counted 9,650 people named Meesala, about 1 in 137 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meesalaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Meesala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.