Špela

given name · Latin script

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

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

Špela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country, where it is the 33rd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 306(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 264K
  • ISIceland1 in 351K

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.

Slovenia (measured from records)

6,882 people, 2025

Sources
66 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 306 (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Spela in US United States, DE Germany, AT Austria.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Špela 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 Špela is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SI Slovenia#336,8821 in 3066.9KŠpela66
DE Germany—≈37 est.≈1 in 2.2M—Spela28
US United States—≈23 est.≈1 in 14M—Spela41
AT Austria—≈19 est.≈1 in 461K2Spela8
HR Croatia—161 in 264K22Špela17
EE Estonia—≈3 est.≈1 in 352Klisted—1
IS Iceland—11 in 351K1——

6,882 people counted by SURS — resident population given names, 2025. 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: SURS — resident population given names; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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)

Špela is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Spela

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, India

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Spela

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Slovenia

    Also written Spela

  • Russian name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Spela, Спела, Шпела, Ŝpela

  • Turkish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia

    Also written Spela

  • Italian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia

    Also written Spela, Spelã

26 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)

1940196019802000Špela Rozin, b. 1943Špela Pretnar, b. 1973Špela Čadež, b. 1977Špela Bračun, b. 1977Špela Ponomarenko, b. 1981Špela Kern, b. 1990Špela Kolarič, b. 1993Špela Rogelj, b. 1994Špela Perše, b. 1996Špela Kolbl, b. 1998

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)

InformalŽivijo Špela,Hi Špela, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Špela
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20236.9K#29
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20226.9K#29
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20246.9K#29
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20256.9K#29
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—6.9K#65
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20216.9K#30
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20196.9K#31
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20186.9K#31
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20206.9K#30
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20166.9K#32
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20176.9K#32
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20156.8K#33

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 Špela?
A machine transcription gives /ʃpɛla/ (IPA) for Slovenian.
Is Špela a male or female name?
Špela is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Špela?
In the etymology graph, Lisa, Betty and Beth are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Elizabeta.
In which country does Špela have the most bearers?
In Slovenia, the national register counted about 6.9 thousand people named Špela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled špela.
Where is Špela most common?
Špela is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 306 people carrying it.
How common is the name Špela?
In Slovenia, the national register counted 6,882 people named Špela in 2025, about 1 in 306 residents.
How common is Špela compared with other names?
In Slovenia, Špela is the 33rd most common given name of 4,300 given names recorded there.

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The 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, “Špela” — the 33rd most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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