Albala
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/alβala/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Albala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Albalá, a habitational surname.
- ESSpain1 in 52K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 500K
- CLChile≈1 in 1.3Mfew 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- 1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
954 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Spanish Albalá, a habitational surname.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Albala 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.
954 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)- David Albalab. 1886RSSerbian military officer, physician, diplomat, and Jewish community leader
- Ken Albalab. 1964USprofessor
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 954 | #4,601 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 954 | #4,599 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 124 | #139,059 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 121 | #138,304 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 119 | #131,366 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 91 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Albala mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Albalá, a habitational surname. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Albala?
- In Spanish /alβala/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Albala have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 954 people named Albala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled albala.
- Where is Albala most common?
- Albala is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 52 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Albala?
- In Spain, the national register counted 954 people named Albala, about 1 in 52 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Albala?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/albalaThe 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, “Albala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.