Muele
surname · Latin script
Meaning: inflection of moler:
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Muele is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 48Kas Mulè(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 93Kas Mule
- USUnited States1 in 232Kas Mule
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 Muele 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- 1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
1,431 named Mule, 2010
Highest-authority source
Uruguay, as Mule
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mule in US United States, AR Argentina, IN India and 2 more and Mulè in IT Italy.
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(measured from records)
inflection of moler:
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Muele 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,431as Mule | 1 in 232K | 1.4K | Mule | 169 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 48K | listed | Mulè | 57 |
| IN India | 1,134as Mule | 1 in 1.2M | 1.1K | Mule | 59 |
| AR Argentina | 487as Mule | 1 in 93K | 487 | Mule | 36 |
| BR Brazil | 226as Mule | 1 in 937K | 226 | Mule | 31 |
| UY Uruguay | 87as Mule | 1 in 39K | 87 | Mule | 8 |
| NO Norway | 34as Mule | 1 in 161K | 34 | — | 2 |
1,431 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Muele is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In gsw, to speak incomprehensibly, babble
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fur, millstone
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lld, picky
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lua, blade of knife, matchet.
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 10 | — |
| 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 Muele mean, and where does it come from?
- inflection of moler: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Muele have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Mule, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Muele most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Muele itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Uruguay's: the national register counts about 1 in 39 thousand people named Mule.
- How common is the name Muele?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,431 people named Mule in 2010, about 1 in 232 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Muele?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mueleThe 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, “Muele”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.