Zavála
surname · Latin script
Zavála is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 74th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Zavala, itself from Basque.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 567(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 966
- NINicaragua≈1 in 1.2K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 389 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 567 (inferred from the name graph)
51,153 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zavala in US United States, PE Peru, VE Venezuela and 4 more.
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 Spanish Zavala, itself from Basque.
Sources 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zavála 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 | — | 51,153 | 1 in 6.5K | 51K | Zavala | 389 |
| PE Peru | #204 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Zavala | 99 |
| HN Honduras | #74 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 567 | — | Zavala | 55 |
| EC Ecuador | #313 | 11,762 | 1 in 1.4K | 12K | Zavala | 63 |
| VE Venezuela | #382 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Zavala | 49 |
| SV El Salvador | #162 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 966 | — | Zavala | 45 |
| NI Nicaragua | #157 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Zavala | 31 |
51,153 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; INEC — civil registry names. 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)
Zavála is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, inflection of zavát:
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zavála mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Zavala, itself from Basque. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Zavála have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 51 thousand people named Zavála, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zavala.
- How common is the name Zavála?
- In the United States, the national register counted 51,153 people named Zavála in 2010, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Zavála compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Zavála is the 74th most common surname of 30,461 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zavála?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zav%C3%A1laThe 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, “Zavála” — the 74th most common surname in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.