Malle
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: smith, or nickname for a fierce fighter, from OF ma(i)l hammer (L malleus). 2
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmæɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Malle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 85th most common surname.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 560as Molla(inferred from the name graph)
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 1.3Kas Molla
- INIndia1 in 2.2Kas Molla
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 Malle 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)
- #485 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- 1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
590,154 named Molla
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Molla in IN India, BD Bangladesh, US United States and 2 more and ሞላ in ET Ethiopia.
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)
pet-name for Mary; first attested Robertus filius Malle 1297 SRY
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
How Malle is read(measured from records)
Malle is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi27%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Malle in Hindi.
- French24%
smith, or nickname for a fierce fighter, from OF ma(i)l hammer (L malleus). 2. metonymic occupational name for a maker of bags or nickname for someone who habitually carried one, from OF male bag (of Gmc origin). Cpds: Malmberg (‘ore hill’); Malmborg (‘ore town’); Malmgren (‘ore branch’); Malmqvist (‘ore twig’); Malmsten (‘ore stone’); Malmstrom (‘ore river’).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
metonymic occupational name for a mail carrier or person in charge of baggage animals, from malle ‘baggage’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
large suitcase; trunk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English22%
pet-name for Mary; first attested Robertus filius Malle 1297 SRY
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Louis, French film director
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Mallorca [Majorca]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish5.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Malle in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Malle 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 | #85 | 590,154as Molla | 1 in 2.2K | 590K | Molla | 117 |
| BD Bangladesh | #32 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 560 | — | Molla | 102 |
| ET Ethiopia | #33 | ≈86,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | ሞላ | 33 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 7,572as Malla | 1 in 2.2K | 7.6K | — | 6 |
| US United States | — | 7,131as Moll | 1 in 47K | 7.1K | Molla | 190 |
| BH Bahrain | #162 | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Molla | 7 |
| DK Denmark | — | 120 | 1 in 49K | 763 | Molla | 13 |
590,154 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; INEC — civil registry names; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Louis Malleb. 1932FRFrench film director, screenwriter, and producer (1932-1995)
- Vincent Malleb. 1944FRFrench film producer (1944-2011)
- Gunter Malleb. 1960DEGerman mathematician
- Frédéric Malleb. 1962FRFrench perfume entrepreneur
- Anna Malleb. 1967USAmerican pornographic actress and director
- Justine Malleb. 1974FRFrench film director
- Mickaël Malleb. 1982FRFrench cyclist
- Chloe Malleb. 1985USAmerican-French fashion editor
- Mirion Malleb. 1992FRFrench comics artist
- Nicolas Malleb. 1998FRcyclist
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 18 | #5,422 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8 | #7,829 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 1 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Malle?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmæɫ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Malle mean?
- In French, smith, or nickname for a fierce fighter, from OF ma(i)l hammer (L malleus). 2.
- Where does the name Malle come from?
- pet-name for Mary; first attested Robertus filius Malle 1297 SRY Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- What are other forms of the name Malle?
- In the etymology graph, Mora, May and Maia are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Malle have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 590 thousand people named Molla, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Malle most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Malle is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 49 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Malle?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 120 people named Malle, about 1 in 49 thousand residents.
- How common is Malle compared with other names?
- In India, Malle is the 85th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/malleThe 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, “Malle” — the 85th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.