Ullah

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Ullah is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common surname. Recorded meaning: see Ulley .

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 225(inferred from the name graph)
  • BDBangladesh≈1 in 464
  • AFAfghanistan≈1 in 614

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.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,000,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
214 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 225 (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

UllahLatin(measured from records)
উল্লাহBengali(measured from records)

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)

see Ulley .

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ullah 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 Ullah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#25≈1,000,000 est.≈1 in 22559Ullah179
BD Bangladesh#31≈350,000 est.≈1 in 4644KUllah140
AF Afghanistan#39≈60,000 est.≈1 in 6141Ullah33
CN China—≈16,000 est.≈1 in 89K—Ullah17
MY Malaysia#798≈2,900 est.≈1 in 11K—Ullah28
US United States—1,9741 in 169K2.8KUllah214
NO Norway—3201 in 17K320—24

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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; This page provides data on the frequency and ranking of names in Bangladesh, published by the Bangladesh Bureau of Stati; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ullah is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname12 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Úlláh, Űľľāh, Ullăh, Üllāh, Ullãh

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ullāh

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Pakistan, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ullåh, Ùllâh, Üllah, Úlláĥ

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Uľľāh, Ullāh, Uľľah, Ûllâh

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Pakistan, Indonesia, India

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Üllãh, Ùĺĺàh

54 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1960198020002020Mohammad Foyez Ullah, b. 1967Kamran Ullah, b. 1983Akayed Ullah, b. 1990Sajid Ullah Khalil, b. 1996Lewis Ullah, b. 2002

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)

Formalمحترم Ullah،Dear Ullah, (English)
Informalمحترم Ullah،Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 38 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Ullah
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.8K#11,003
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102K#14,976
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.3K#18,994
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—320#4,720
PK PakistanElection Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election201859#9
AF AfghanistanWikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names—1#278
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • 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)

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 Ullah?
A machine transcription gives /ɐlə/ (IPA) for Urdu.
What does the name Ullah mean?
Recorded meaning: see Ulley .
In which country does Ullah have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 million people named Ullah in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ullah.
How common is the name Ullah?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,974 people named Ullah in 2010, about 1 in 169 thousand residents.
How common is Ullah compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Ullah is the 25th most common surname of 51,489 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, “Ullah” — the 25th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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