Pella
loc · Latin script
Meaning: An ancient city, capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pella is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 170 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
An ancient city, capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pella counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 512 | Pella | 170 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 12 | Pella | 33 |
| AU Australia | — | — | Pella | 17 |
| RU Russia | — | — | Pella | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 295 | — | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | 206 | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | — | 63 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 60 | — | 4 |
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 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Pella 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.
Swedish: pet form of PERNILLA , representing a dramatically contracted form of the name.
as a word
In French, third-person singular past historic of peller
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, obsolete spelling of pela
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, contraction of per la
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, lump, dollop, mass
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Josep Pella i Forgasb. 1852ESSpanish historian, politician and jurist (1852-1918)
- Pere Pella i Forgasb. 1858ESSpanish writer and engineer
- Vespasian Pellab. 1897RORomanian jurist (1897–1952)
- Giuseppe Pellab. 1902ITItalian politician (1902-1981)
- Roy Pellab. 1930CACanadian discus thrower
- Enrique Ocrospomab. 1968PEnot in their usual namePeruvian politician and lawyer
- Roberto Pellab. 1970ITItalian politician
- Alex Pellab. 1972ESSpanish sailor
- Pella Kågermanb. 1982SESwedish film maker
- Guido Pellab. 1990ARArgentine tennis player (born 1990)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 512 | #40,265 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 509 | #45,303 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 484 | #44,423 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 295 | #3,964 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 206 | #35,921 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 143 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 137 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 130 | #48,328 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 123 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 112 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 106 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 98 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Pella mean, and where does it come from?
- An ancient city, capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Pella have the most bearers?
- Pella is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled pella.
What do you want to know about Pella?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pellaThe 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, “Pella”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.