Merali
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɝɑɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Merali is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 2M(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 96K
- CACanada≈1 in 128K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 96K (inferred from the name graph)
≈610 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Merali 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 | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Merali | 16 |
| CA Canada | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Merali | 70 |
| US United States | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 2M | 5 | Merali | 121 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 405K | — | Merali | 86 |
| KE Kenya | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 390K | — | Merali | 15 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 221K | — | Merali | 20 |
| BE Belgium | 9 | 1 in 1.3M | 9 | Merali | 4 |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 9 | #75,389 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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
- How do you pronounce Merali?
- A machine transcription gives /mɝɑɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Merali have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 610 people named Merali in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled merali.
- How common is the name Merali?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 9 people named Merali in 2008, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Merali?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meraliThe 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, “Merali”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.