Màl
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Màl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French mal (“illness”). Doublet of malus.
- INIndia1 in 6.1K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 37K
- GYGuyana1 in 75K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)
218,731 people
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mal in IN India, DZ Algeria and M-Al in US United States.
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)
Borrowed from French mal (“illness”). Doublet of malus.
Sources 8
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- Wiktionary
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Màl 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.
218,731 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Màl 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.
In mtq, banded krait
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Scottish Gaelic, rent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Màl mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French mal (“illness”). Doublet of malus. Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames) and 6 other sources.
- In which country does Màl have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 219 thousand people named Màl, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mal.
- Where is Màl most common?
- Màl is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Màl?
- In India, the national register counted 218,731 people named Màl, about 1 in 6.1 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A0lThe 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, “Màl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.