Billa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person singular past historic of biller
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/biʎa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Billa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 55K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 55Kfew records
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)third-person singular past historic of biller
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Billa is found
(measured from records)Billa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Billa | 19 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 365 | — | — |
| IN India | 2,144 | 1 in 619K | 2.1K | Billa | 96 |
| FR France | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 75 | — | — |
| MA Morocco | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Billa | 4 |
| NO Norway | 100 | 1 in 55K | 100 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Billa | 7 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Billa 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.
Father has been reborn.
as a nameThe African book of names
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of bille
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pi, marmelos tree
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, spigot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ( Gèze , Foix ap. Lh .). Barra, objeto cilíndrico alargado. "Bille" Gèze . "(S; Foix), petit levier qui tourne l'ensouple d'un treuil" Lh . Cf. gasc. bilhe (y fr. regional bille ). Urtharaz zazu hirur billa xokolat hirur taza esnetan eta sukra zazu . ECocin 34.
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Salvatore Billab. 1943ITItalian actor and stuntman (1943–2006)
- Estref Billab. 1980ALAlbanian association football player
- Nicole Billab. 1996ATAustrian footballer
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)Evidence
(measured from records)39 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Billa mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular past historic of biller Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Billa?
- In Spanish /biʎa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Billa?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Billa in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled billa. After it come Côte d’Ivoire, India, France and Morocco; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Billa?
- In India, the national register counted 2,144 people named Billa, about 1 in 619 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Billa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/billaThe 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, “Billa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.