The Mule surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,431 people carried this name — #19,027 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 204,100 people counted. That is up 5% from 1,366 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Mule surname
A surname from Arabic.
From Arabic مَوْلًى (mawlan, “chief, lord, master”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Mulè» (Italian), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 487 people named Mule live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Santa Fe.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 190 people named Mule.
79 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 25 départements, most often Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
44 people named Mule live in Switzerland.
They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Schwyz.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Mule.
- Muh 134 · U.S. census
- Muhammad 19,076 · U.S. census
- Muhl 549 · U.S. census
- Muhr 691 · U.S. census
- Mula 520 · U.S. census
- Mulder 7,317 · U.S. census
- Mulero 1,015 · U.S. census
- Mulet 413 · U.S. census
- Mull 9,377 · U.S. census
- Mullard 100 · U.S. census
- Mulle 205 · U.S. census
- Mullenbach 448 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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