Names of Maldives MV

Names in the Maldives are recorded in Divehi, with a given name followed by an inherited family name.

Written in Divehi.

Population
392K
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
5
BBuilt from 1 official register, 5 name forms in our corpus, 9 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

How names work in Maldives

Names in Maldives follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

The most common names in Maldives

Characteristic of Maldives

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Maldives holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

Ibrahim
Sized by how much of the difference between Maldives's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

Ibrahimgiven name●
Abdullahgiven name●
Muhammadgiven name●
Michaelgiven name●
Malegiven name●
The best-attested names in Maldives, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • This page provides historical and cultural insights about the Maldives, published by Facts and Details.2008not a population count

    factsanddetails.com. Counts: not recorded. given. 1 forms. 1965–2008. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. This page provides historical and cultural insights about the Maldives, published by Facts and Details. NAME-SEARCH SWEEP 2026-08-06: checked the National Bureau of Statistics (statisticsmaldives.gov.mv — yearbooks/datasets only) and the Department of National Registration (dnr.gov.mv / online.dnr.gov.mv; public portal is citizen.egov.mv, for authenticated personal ID-card applications) for a live per-name existence/frequency oracle. No public per-name or per-person query tool found. Not re-searched until infrastructure changes.

    Last verified 2026-05-11.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Maldives”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/MV (data snapshot 2026-09-12).