Thula
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A kind of ancient poem in Germanic languages, consisting of metrical lists of poetic synonyms for oral recitation
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/θʊlə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thula is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 188K
- SESweden1 in 537K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A kind of ancient poem in Germanic languages, consisting of metrical lists of poetic synonyms for oral recitation.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thula 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 | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Thula | 20 |
| US United States | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | 5 | Thula | 47 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | 5 | Thula | 12 |
| BR Brazil | — | 21 | 1 in 10M | 22 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 19 | 1 in 537K | 19 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 16 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 4 | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | 1 |
| SZ Eswatini | #174 | — | — | 2 | Thula | 6 |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Thula is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Zulu, to be quiet, to be peaceful, to be still
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nr, to be quiet
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
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 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 22 | #56,858 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 21 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 21 | #120,190 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 19 | #25,226 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 16 | #20,874 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 14 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Thula mean, and where does it come from?
- A kind of ancient poem in Germanic languages, consisting of metrical lists of poetic synonyms for oral recitation. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Thula?
- A machine transcription gives /θʊlə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Thula a male or female name?
- Thula is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Thula have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Thula in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thula.
- How common is the name Thula?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 21 people named Thula in 2022, about 1 in 10 million residents.
- How common is Thula compared with other names?
- In Eswatini, Thula is the 174th most common given name of 181 given names 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/thulaThe 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, “Thula” — the 174th most common given name in Eswatini. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.