Mudaliar

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Title given to a high-ranking military officer in certain Tamil communities

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

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

Mudaliar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Fiji than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 91K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.6M
  • FJFiji≈1 in 1.6K

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.

Fiji (inferred from the name graph)

≈580 people, est.

Sources
130 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Fiji, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Title given to a high-ranking military officer in certain Tamil communities.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mudaliar 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 Mudaliar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FJ Fiji#50≈580 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Mudaliar13
ID Indonesia—≈550 est.≈1 in 485K—Mudaliar1
AU Australia—≈280 est.≈1 in 91K—Mudaliar69
US United States—2081 in 1.6M318Mudaliar115
CA Canada—≈110 est.≈1 in 360K—Mudaliar42
NZ New Zealand—≈87 est.≈1 in 57K—Mudaliar22
AE United Arab Emirates—≈66 est.≈1 in 151K—Mudaliar16
SG Singapore—≈17 est.≈1 in 356K—Mudaliar8

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 — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)

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

  • Hindi surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Mudaliyar, মুদালিয়ার, Mudāliyār, Mudaliyār, Mudaliyâr

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written మదలయర, Modaliar

28 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Mudaliar is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Tamil honorary title meaning 'person of first rank'.

    as a wordsanames.co.za — South African surnames

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Mudaliar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020318#67,004
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010208#89,069
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000108#141,788
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Mudaliar mean, and where does it come from?
Title given to a high-ranking military officer in certain Tamil communities. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Mudaliar?
A machine transcription gives /mjudəʎia/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Mudaliar have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 578 people named Mudaliar in Fiji, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mudaliar.
How common is the name Mudaliar?
In the United States, the national register counted 208 people named Mudaliar in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
How common is Mudaliar compared with other names?
In Fiji, Mudaliar is the 50th most common surname of 314 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Mudaliar” — the 50th most common surname in Fiji. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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