Mábila
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mábila is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- GAGabon≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- SZEswatini≈1 in 21K
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Gabon, 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 Mabila in ZA South Africa, PH Philippines.
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.
Where the surname Mábila is found
(measured from records)Mábila 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Mabila | 7 |
| GA Gabon | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 4 | — | — |
| SZ Eswatini | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 5 | — | 2 |
| PH Philippines | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Mabila | 3 |
| BR Brazil | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 8.7M | 267 | Mábila | 26 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Mábila a male or female name?
- Mábila 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mábila?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Mábila in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mabila. After it come Gabon, Eswatini, Philippines and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mábila?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1 people named Mábila in 2008, about 1 in 12 million residents.
What do you want to know about Mábila?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A1bilaThe 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, “Mábila”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.