Zoila
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/soila/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zoila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country, where it is the 65th most common given name.
- ECEcuador1 in 342(measured from records)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 641
- PEPeru≈1 in 832
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 269 (measured from records)
- 1 in 342 (inferred from the name graph)
49,392 people, 2024
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zoila 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #65 | 49,392 | 1 in 342 | 49K | Zoila | 38 |
| PE Peru | #210 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 832 | — | Zoila | 77 |
| US United States | — | 12,487 | 1 in 27K | 12K | Zoila | 269 |
| SV El Salvador | #225 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 641 | — | Zoila | 22 |
| HN Honduras | #117 | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Zoila | 18 |
| NI Nicaragua | #176 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Zoila | 16 |
49,392 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zoila Ugarte de Landívarb. 1864ECEcuadorian writer, journalist, suffragist, and feminist
- Aurora Cáceresb. 1877PEnot in their usual namePeruvian writer
- Yma Sumacb. 1922PEnot in their usual namePeruvian-American singer (1922–2008)
- Zoila Águila Almeidab. 1939CUCuban revolutionary combatant and political prisoner
- Zoila Riera i Benb. 1954ESSpanish politician
- Lourdes Mendozab. 1958PEnot in their usual namePeruvian businesswoman and politician
- Zoila Mendozab. 1960PEPeruvian ethnomusicologist
- Sophia Zoila Leeb. 1970USAmerican legal historian and academic administrator
- Zoila Barrosb. 1976CUfemale Cuban volleyball player
- Zoila La Rosab. 1990PEPeruvian volleyball player
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)
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)
Attested in 43 sources across 25 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Zoila?
- A machine transcription gives /soila/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Zoila a male or female name?
- Zoila 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.
- What are other forms of the name Zoila?
- In the etymology graph, Zoe, Zoey and Zoie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Zoila have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 49 thousand people named Zoila, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zoila.
- Where is Zoila most common?
- Zoila is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 342 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zoila?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 49,392 people named Zoila in 2024, about 1 in 342 residents.
- How common is Zoila compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Zoila is the 65th most common given name of 27,061 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zoila?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zoilaThe 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, “Zoila” — the 65th most common given name in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.