Dávila
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Avilla, España; Monforte de Lemos, Portugal, Casablanca, Maroc, Iquitos, Amazonia, Rio de Janeiro
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/d̪aβila/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dávila is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common surname.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 183(inferred from the name graph)
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 449
- PEPeru≈1 in 552
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- #710 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 425 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 183 (inferred from the name graph)
≈58,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Davila in PE Peru, US United States, VE Venezuela and 3 more.
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)
Avilla, España; Monforte de Lemos, Portugal, Casablanca, Maroc, Iquitos, Amazonia, Rio de Janeiro
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dávila 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #67 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 552 | — | Davila | 117 |
| US United States | #737 | 44,388 | 1 in 7.5K | 45K | Davila | 425 |
| NI Nicaragua | #16 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 183 | — | Davila | 50 |
| VE Venezuela | #156 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 884 | — | Davila | 77 |
| BR Brazil | #482 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 9.6K | Davila | 119 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 8,723 | 1 in 388 | 8.7K | Dávila | 46 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #79 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 449 | — | Davila | 67 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Dávila is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, inflection of dávit:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gil González Dávilab. 1480ESSpanish colonial governor
- Miguel R. Dávilab. 1856HNPresident of Honduras (1856-1927)
- Fidel Dávila Arrondob. 1878ESSpanish general and noble (1878-1962)
- Carlos Dávilab. 1887CLChilean diplomat, journalist and politician (1887-1955)
- Amparo Dávilab. 1928MXMexican writer
- Miguel Ángel Gonzálezb. 1970MXnot in their usual nameMexican boxer
- Antonio Biaggib. 1978USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican pornographic actor
- Ulises Dávilab. 1991MXMexican footballer
- Kristal Silva Dávilab. 1991MXMexican model
- Andrés Felipe Solano Dávilab. 1998COColombian association football player
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 6 sources across 4 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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 Dávila?
- A machine transcription gives /d̪aβila/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Dávila mean?
- Recorded meaning: Avilla, España; Monforte de Lemos, Portugal, Casablanca, Maroc, Iquitos, Amazonia, Rio de Janeiro
- In which country does Dávila have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 58 thousand people named Dávila in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled davila.
- How common is the name Dávila?
- In the United States, the national register counted 44,388 people named Dávila in 2010, about 1 in 7.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Dávila compared with other names?
- In Peru, Dávila is the 67th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%A1vilaThe 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, “Dávila” — the 67th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.