Apela
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Apela is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 136K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 8.9Kas Apple
- USUnited States1 in 48Kas Apple
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 Apela 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 136K (inferred from the name graph)
6,948 named Apple, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Apel in US United States, BD Bangladesh.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Apela 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 6,948as Apple | 1 in 48K | 6.9K | Apel | 16 |
| BD Bangladesh | #666 | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 231K | — | Apel | 22 |
| BR Brazil | — | 305as Apel | 1 in 694K | 305 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 223as Apel | 1 in 172K | 114 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 128as Apel | 1 in 80K | 128 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 117as Apel | 1 in 50K | 117 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 84as Apple | 1 in 8.9K | 84 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 25 | 1 in 136K | 25 | — | — |
| DM Dominica | — | 1as Apple | 1 in 74K | 1 | — | — |
6,948 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling apple. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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)
Apela 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.
In cic, Humes' spelling of apila
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, to call
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, appeal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, APELÁ, apelez, vb. I. Intranz. 1. A se adresa cuiva cu o rugăminte, cu o cerere, a cere concursul cuiva. 2. (Jur.; în trecut) A introduce un apel (4).
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
In Latvian, Tautas sapulce Senajā Spartā, kas tika sasaukta reizi mēnesī, piedalījās 30 g. vecumu sasnieguši pilsoņi, tā apstiprināja vai noraidīja vecāko padomes un amatpersonu lēmumus, balsoja kliedzot
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 25 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Apela have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.9 thousand people named Apple, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Apela most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Apela is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 136 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Apela?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 25 people named Apela, about 1 in 136 thousand residents.
- How common is Apela compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Apela is the 666th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Apela?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/apelaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Apela” — the 666th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.