Máli
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Máli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Medieval vernacular form of Magdalene.
- INIndia1 in 18K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 726K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 267Kas Maeli
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 Máli 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.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 241 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
73,466 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nepal
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mali in IN India, US United States, ZA South Africa.
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)Medieval vernacular form of Magdalene.
Cited for this meaning 7
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- African Names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Máli 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 73,466 | 1 in 18K | 73K | Mali | 110 |
| NP Nepal | 19,605 | 1 in 1.5K | 20K | — | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | 665 | 1 in 3.2K | 665 | — | 8 |
| US United States | 458 | 1 in 726K | 1.6K | Mali | 241 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 267K | — | Mali | 32 |
| FI Finland | 193 | 1 in 29K | 193 | — | 3 |
| HR Croatia | 49 | 1 in 86K | 49 | — | 1 |
73,466 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; NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)Máli 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 Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麻利
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, dative singular of mál
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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Máli mean, and where does it come from?
- Medieval vernacular form of Magdalene. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and African Names and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Máli have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 73 thousand people named Máli, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mali.
- Where is Máli most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Máli is densest in Nepal — about 1 in 1.5 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Máli?
- In India, the national register counted 73,466 people named Máli, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A1liThe 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, “Máli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.