Yela
surname · Latin script
Meaning: jelly
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʝela/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yela is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 60K
- USUnited States1 in 873Kas Ela
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yela 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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
jelly
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yela 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #961 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 3 | Yela | 55 |
| ES Spain | — | 834 | 1 in 60K | 834 | Yela | 76 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Yela | 20 |
| US United States | — | 381as Ela | 1 in 873K | 2.8K | Yela | 75 |
| IN India | — | 369as Ela | 1 in 3.6M | 369 | Yela | 5 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 348K | — | Yela | 9 |
| FI Finland | — | 35as Ele | 1 in 159K | 144 | — | 1 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Yela is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In vo, genitive singular of yel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lingala, to bring
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In umb, clean
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
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)
- Juan Francisco Yela Utrillab. 1893ESSpanish historian, academic
- Mariano Yelab. 1921ESSpanish psychologist (1921-1994)
- Antonia Torre Yelab. 1922ESSpanish fighter
- José Luis Yelab. 1956entomologist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 834 | #5,196 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 834 | #5,196 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 175 | #96,480 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 168 | #111,467 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 166 | #107,134 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 61 | #31,478 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 32 | #59,475 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 3 | #113 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Yela mean, and where does it come from?
- jelly Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Yela?
- A machine transcription gives /ʝela/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Yela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Yela in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yela.
- How common is the name Yela?
- In Spain, the national register counted 834 people named Yela, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
- How common is Yela compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Yela is the 961st most common surname of 144,306 surnames 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/yelaThe 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, “Yela” — the 961st most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.