Kabila
given name · Latin script
Meaning: nation (group of people), ethnic group
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/kaɓila/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Kabila is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- UGUganda≈1 in 150K(inferred from the name graph)
- KEKenya≈1 in 470K
- INIndia≈1 in 750K
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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 148K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uganda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)nation (group of people), ethnic group
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kabila 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.
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; the masakhane 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Kabila is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, opposite side (of a street, river, etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hausa, alternative form of ƙàbīlā̀
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, tribe, kin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kmb, Pastor
as a wordDiccionario Portuguez-Kimbundu
In Basque, " Kábila bat, una caseta como la de Laspiur en Gomistegui" Iz ArOñ .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kabila mean, and where does it come from?
- nation (group of people), ethnic group Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kabila?
- In Swahili /kaɓila/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Kabila a male or female name?
- Kabila is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kabila have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Kabila in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kabila.
- How common is the name Kabila?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Kabila in 2025, about 1 in 750 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kabila?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kabilaThe 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, “Kabila”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.