Avïla

surname · Latin script

Avïla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 55th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish or Galician Ávila. Avïla is also written Авила in Cyrillic and Άβιλα in Greek.

  • HNHonduras≈1 in 180(inferred from the name graph)
  • MXMexico≈1 in 390
  • ECEcuador1 in 421

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.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

≈340,000 people, est.

#310 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames, spellings grouped

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
458 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 175 (inferred from the name graph)

Honduras, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Avïla in other scripts: Cyrillic and Greek

(measured from records)
AvïlaLatin(measured from records)
АвилаAvïla in Cyrillic(measured from records)
ΆβιλαAvïla in Greek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Avila in MX Mexico, US United States, AR Argentina and 4 more and Ávila in CR Costa Rica.

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)

From Spanish or Galician Ávila.

Cited for this meaning 2

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Avïla is found

(measured from records)

Avïla 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 Avïla is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#55≈340,000 est.≈1 in 3876.5KAvila244
CO Colombia#76≈110,000 est.≈1 in 49355Avila165
US United States#39397,3141 in 3.4K97KAvila458
AR Argentina#8578,1961 in 58278KAvila129
BR Brazil#204≈63,000 est.≈1 in 3.4K5.6KAvila179
HN Honduras#14≈62,000 est.≈1 in 175—Avila73
EC Ecuador—40,1831 in 42140KAvila76
CR Costa Rica#60910,4451 in 48810KÁvila90

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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Avïla under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Avïla mean, and where does it come from?
From Spanish or Galician Ávila. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Avïla?
Mondonomo estimates about 338 thousand people named Avïla in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled avila. After it come Colombia, United States, Argentina and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Avïla?
In the United States, the national register counted 97,314 people named Avïla in 2010, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
How common is Avïla compared with other names?
In Mexico, Avïla is the 55th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Avïla” — ranked 52nd in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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