Mouli
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A hand-operated kitchen utensil designed for grating or pureeing small quantities of food
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries
/muli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mouli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 915K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 14Kas Mela
- UYUruguay1 in 45Kas Mela
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 Mouli 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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 915K (inferred from the name graph)
682 named Mela
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A hand-operated kitchen utensil designed for grating or pureeing small quantities of food.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mouli 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 682as Mela | 1 in 67K | 682 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 572as Mela | 1 in 370K | 572 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 430as Mela | 1 in 89K | 216 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 389as Mela | 1 in 14K | 389 | — | — |
| US United States | 260as Mela | 1 in 1.3M | 873 | Mouli | 74 |
| ES Spain | 207as Mela | 1 in 242K | 207 | — | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | 76as Mela | 1 in 45K | 76 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 915K | 53 | — | 1 |
682 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Mouli is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
mestre; master
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In llu, left hand; left handed
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14 | #101,339 |
| 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
- What does the name Mouli mean, and where does it come from?
- A hand-operated kitchen utensil designed for grating or pureeing small quantities of food. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mouli?
- A machine transcription gives /muli/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Mouli have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 682 people named Mela, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mouli?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 682 people named Mela, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mouliThe 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, “Mouli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.