Mualem

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/məalɛm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Mualem is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 798K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 5.7M
  • PLPoland1 in 6.4M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

57 people

Sources
22 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 798K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mualem 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.

Where Mualem is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina571 in 798K57Mualem16
BR Brazil371 in 5.7M37Mualem22
PL Poland61 in 6.4M4——
US United States——listedMualem8
IL Israel———Mualem6
PT Portugal———Mualem2
CU Cuba———Mualem1

57 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mualem is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hebrew surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, India, Yemen

    Also written מועלם, Mouallem, Moalem, Muallem, Moualem

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Mu̕alem, Mualém

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Mualem
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—57—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—37#129,205
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20264—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4#231,096
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#363,493
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Mualem?
A machine transcription gives /məalɛm/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
In which country does Mualem have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 57 people named Mualem, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mualem.
Where is Mualem most common?
Mualem is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 798 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Mualem?
In Argentina, the national register counted 57 people named Mualem, about 1 in 798 thousand residents.

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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, “Mualem”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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