Adila
given name · Latin script
Meaning: just, upright
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as female
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Norway (SSB): listed as female
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 35 countries
/adila/(machine-generated) Malay · model-generated
Adila is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 3.8Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 21Kfew records
- BRBrazil1 in 39K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Adila itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
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
(measured from records)just, upright
Cited for this meaning 1
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Adila 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Adila | 9 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 2 | Adila | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 5,490 | 1 in 39K | 5.5K | Adila | 71 |
| IN India | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 328K | 22 | Adila | 18 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 27K | listed | Adila | 11 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Adila | 18 |
| GE Georgia | 279as ადილა | 1 in 14K | 279 | Adila | 6 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)Adila is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
just, fair
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
In Arabic, equal; honest, upright, just, righteous; feminine of Adil
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, honest, upright, righteous; fem. of Adil
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In wew, to put water in the rice fields for a long time
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)- Adila Fachirib. 1886HUHungarian-born British violinist (1886–1962)
- Adilə Şahtaxtinskayab. 1894GEnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani obstetrician-gynecologist
- Adila Yusifovab. 1956AZAzerbaijani scientist
- Adila bint Abdulla Al Saudb. 1965SASaudi Princess
- Adila Hassimb. 1972ZASouth African barrister
- Adila Bennedjaï-Zoub. 1973DZjournalist
- Adila Bendimeradb. 1988DZAlgerian actress
- Adila KhatunDaughter of Ahmed Pasha (died 1768)
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)59 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 22 | #73,868 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 13 | #18,829 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Adila mean, and where does it come from?
- just, upright Recorded by Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names.
- What are other forms of the name Adila?
- In the etymology graph, Adile is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Adila?
- It depends on the language: in Malay /adila/; in Portuguese /ɐdilɐ/; in Indonesian /adila/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Adila a male or female name?
- Adila is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as female; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Norway (SSB): listed as female; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Adila have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Adila in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adila.
- How common is the name Adila?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 5,490 people named Adila in 2022, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adilaThe 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, “Adila”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.