Tula
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Nigeria: people of the Bauchi region; also Hindi Libra-born name
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tula is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 1.1Mas Tola(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 5.2K
- UYUruguay1 in 36K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tula itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
8,672 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Nigeria: people of the Bauchi region; also Hindi Libra-born name
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Tula, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tula 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 8,672 | 1 in 5.2K | 8.7K | — | — |
| IN India | 1,257as Tola | 1 in 1.1M | 1.3K | Tula | 50 |
| US United States | 553as Tola | 1 in 602K | 2.7K | — | 48 |
| FI Finland | 485as Tala | 1 in 11K | 485 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 472as Tola | 1 in 106K | 472 | — | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 94 | 1 in 36K | 94 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 70as Tala | 1 in 78K | 456 | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | 27as Tola | 1 in 78K | 27 | — | — |
8,672 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Tula is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, penis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, lang., Nigeria; city, Russia
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Spanish, Hipocorístico de Gertrudis
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In German, weibl. Vom., spanische Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
born in lunar month Libra
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
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)
- Cyd Charisseb. 1921USnot in their usual nameAmerican dancer and actress (1921–2008)
- Tula Royb. 1934CHSwiss film director
- Tula Benitesb. 1961PEPeruvian politician
- Tula Umab. 1970INIndian politician
- Tula Lotayb. 1975GBEnglish comic book artist
- Tula Rodríguezb. 1977PEPeruvian TV personality
- Cristian Tulab. 1978ARArgentine footballer
- Tula Ben Arib. 1983ILIsraeli singer
- Tulisa Contostavlosb. 1988GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer, songwriter and actress
- Tula GoenkaUSIndian American filmmaker & academic
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 64 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #10,324 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 142 | #10,324 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 80 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 80 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 66 | #10,116 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 43 | #31,614 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 42 | #14,531 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 40 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #14,306 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #13,779 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2014 | 7 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 3 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Tula mean, and where does it come from?
- Nigeria: people of the Bauchi region; also Hindi Libra-born name Recorded by African Names.
- In which country does Tula have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 8.7 thousand people named Tula, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tula most common?
- Tula is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tula?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 8,672 people named Tula, about 1 in 5.2 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tulaThe 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, “Tula”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.