Sábala

Name: Sábala: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

surname · Latin script

Sábala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common

PHPhilippines≈1 in 56K(inferred from the name graph)
VEVenezuela≈1 in 64K
USUnited States1 in 172K

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.

: Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
Sources: 131 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)

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:

Sabala

Locally spelled Sabala in US United States, PH Philippines, VE Venezuela and 4 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

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

Sources 4

DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sábala 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 Sábala is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
PH Philippines	—	≈2,000 est.	≈1 in 56K	—	Sabala	17
US United States	—	1,938	1 in 172K	1.9K	Sabala	131
KE Kenya	—	≈740 est.	≈1 in 72K	—	Sabala	11
CO Colombia	—	≈620 est.	≈1 in 79K	1	Sabala	35
DO Dominican Republic	#558	≈610 est.	≈1 in 17K	—	Sabala	21
VE Venezuela	—	≈450 est.	≈1 in 64K	—	Sabala	15
NI Nicaragua	#985	≈85 est.	≈1 in 73K	—	Sabala	4

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; the co-datosgov-candidates 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)

Sábala is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, United States
Languages: Indonesian, Malay
Also written Sabala

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Sábala under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Sábala have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Sábala in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sabala.
How common is the name Sábala?: In the United States, the national register counted 1,938 people named Sábala in 2010, about 1 in 172 thousand residents.
How common is Sábala compared with other names?: In the Dominican Republic, Sábala is the 558th most common surname of 26,844 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/s%C3%A1bala

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 2026-10-10 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, “Sábala” — the 558th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)