Tola

loc · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Tola is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Nicaragua. Recorded meaning: His judgeship represents a period of restoration and stability for Israel following the chaos of Abimelech's usurpation.

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua
  • ECEcuador
  • COColombia

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.

Nicaragua (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
89 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

His judgeship represents a period of restoration and stability for Israel following the chaos of Abimelech's usurpation.

Sources 1

  • Biblical Names Compiled Database

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tola counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Tola is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NI Nicaragua——Tola1
MX Mexico——Tola30
CO Colombia——Tola19
ES Spain—472Tola63
EC Ecuador—17Tola24
PL Poland—2.6K——
AR Argentina—1.3K—37
IN India—1.3K—8
US United States—651—89

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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tola is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Nigeria

    Also written Tula, 'Tola, Töla, Tûla, Toĺa

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tolā

  • Amharic name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia

    Also written ቶላ, ቶለ, Tolaa, Tole

  • Indonesian name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written Tölä

71 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Tola 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.

  • Worm, Crimson, or Scarlet (referring to the insect used for dye)

    as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database

  • Crimson worm or Scarlet

    as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database

  • In English, Biblical name

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Inestimable

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In tuw-pro, frog eggs

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

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)

1850190019502000Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola, b. 1888Tola Mankiewiczówna, b. 1900Tola Vologe, b. 1909Fernando García Tola, b. 1945Tesfaye Tola, b. 1974Pamela Tola, b. 1981Erjon Tola, b. 1986Tamirat Tola, b. 1991Tola Klara Szlagowska, b. 1992Shura Kitata, b. 1996

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 58 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Tola
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.3K—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.3K#4,590
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020651#36,891
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010553#39,717
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—472#8,405
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—472#8,396
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000468#43,463
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—30#8,596
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)202417—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20265—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#395,499

Reference works 7

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 Tola mean, and where does it come from?
His judgeship represents a period of restoration and stability for Israel following the chaos of Abimelech's usurpation. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
In which country does Tola have the most bearers?
Tola is most frequently recorded in Nicaragua, where it is most often spelled tola.

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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, “Tola”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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