Vélla
surname · Latin script
Vélla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 4,051 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Italian and Maltese Vella.
- BEBelgium1 in 37K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 44K
- USUnited States1 in 82K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 215 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
4,051 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vella in US United States, BE Belgium, MT Malta.
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)Borrowed from Italian and Maltese Vella.
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Vélla is found
(measured from records)Vélla 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4,051 | 1 in 82K | 4.1K | Vella | 54 |
| AR Argentina | — | 546 | 1 in 83K | 546 | — | — |
| IN India | — | 431 | 1 in 3.1M | 431 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 364 | 1 in 582K | 364 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 314 | 1 in 37K | 382 | Vella | 16 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 191 | 1 in 44K | 191 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | 36 | 1 in 155K | 174 | — | — |
| MT Malta | #165 | — | — | — | Vella | 29 |
4,051 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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
- What does the name Vélla mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Italian and Maltese Vella. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Vélla?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Vélla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vella. After it come Argentina, India, Brazil and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Vélla most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vélla is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 37 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vélla?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,051 people named Vélla in 2010, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
- How common is Vélla compared with other names?
- In Malta, Vélla is the 165th most common surname of 5,132 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vélla?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/v%C3%A9llaThe 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, “Vélla” — ranked 8189th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.