Sévilla

surname · Latin script

Sévilla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nicaragua than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic إِشْبِيلِيَة (ʔišbīliya), a deformation of the Latin Hispalis, ultimately from Phoenician 𐤔𐤐𐤋𐤄 (šplh /⁠sefela⁠/, “valley, plain”).

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 316(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 3K
  • ECEcuador1 in 3.5K

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.

Nicaragua (inferred from the name graph)

≈20,000 people, est.

Sources
321 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 316 (inferred from the name graph)

Nicaragua, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sevilla in ES Spain, EC Ecuador, CN China and 2 more and Seville in US United States.

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)

Derivation of Sévilla: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Sévilla
  1. Arabicإِشْبِيلِيَةʔišbīliya(measured from records)
  2. Phoenician𐤔𐤐𐤋𐤄šplh /⁠sefela⁠/“valley, plain”(measured from records)

Borrowed from Arabic إِشْبِيلِيَة (ʔišbīliya), a deformation of the Latin Hispalis, ultimately from Phoenician 𐤔𐤐𐤋𐤄 (šplh /⁠sefela⁠/, “valley, plain”).

Sources 3

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sévilla 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 Sévilla is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NI Nicaragua≈20,000 est.≈1 in 316—Sevilla51
ES Spain16,6351 in 3K17KSevilla174
VE Venezuela≈11,000 est.≈1 in 2.6K—Sevilla45
US United States8,9801 in 37K9.1KSeville321
CN China≈7,900 est.≈1 in 176K—Sevilla3
EC Ecuador4,8971 in 3.5K4.9KSevilla61
CR Costa Rica2,9161 in 1.7K2.9K—46

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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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

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

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Sévilla mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Arabic إِشْبِيلِيَة (ʔišbīliya), a deformation of the Latin Hispalis, ultimately from Phoenician 𐤔𐤐𐤋𐤄 (šplh /⁠sefela⁠/, “valley, plain”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 1 other source.
In which country does Sévilla have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Sévilla in Nicaragua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sevilla.
How common is the name Sévilla?
In Spain, the national register counted 16,635 people named Sévilla, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.

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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, “Sévilla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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