Vadalá

surname · Latin script

Vadalá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Italian Vadalà.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly≈1 in 71K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina1 in 120K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 280K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈880 people, est.

Sources
171 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 71K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, 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 Vadalà in IT Italy and Vadala' 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)

Borrowed from Italian Vadalà.

Sources 2

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vadalá 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 Vadalá is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈880 est.≈1 in 71KlistedVadalà38
US United States6601 in 504K690Vadala'171
AR Argentina3781 in 120K378Vadalá35
IN India3141 in 4.2M314—11
GB United Kingdom≈220 est.≈1 in 301K6—16
BE Belgium351 in 335K35—4
CH Switzerland301 in 280K30—2

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)

Vadalá is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Italy

    Also written Vadalà, vadalÃ, Wadala, Vadala

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Vadala, Vadalà

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Vadalà, Vadala

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Vadalà, Vadala, vadalÃ

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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 Vadalá 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 Vadalá mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Italian Vadalà. Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Wiktionary.
In which country does Vadalá have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 878 people named Vadalá in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vadalà.
How common is the name Vadalá?
In the United States, the national register counted 660 people named Vadalá in 2010, about 1 in 504 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, “Vadalá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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