Ardila
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ardila is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 7.2K
- ESSpain1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 220 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈45,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, 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
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)
Ardila 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #139 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 26 | Ardila | 174 |
| VE Venezuela | #692 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Ardila | 42 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,955 | 1 in 17K | 3K | Ardila | 108 |
| US United States | — | 912 | 1 in 365K | 1.1K | Ardila | 220 |
| AR Argentina | — | 254 | 1 in 179K | 254 | Ardila | 35 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Ardila | 33 |
| NI Nicaragua | #771 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Ardila | 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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Ardila is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, upe Spānijā un Portugālē (Ardila), Gvadjanas kreisā krasta pieteka
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- José María Ardilab. 1918VEVenezuelan association football player
- Carlos Ardila Lülleb. 1930COColombian entrepreneur
- Rubén Ardilab. 1942COColombian psychologist and professor
- Alfredo Ardilab. 1946COresearcher (1946-2021)
- Aguilar de Jerezb. 1953ESnot in their usual nameSpanish flamenco singer (1953-2015)
- Fernando Bermúdez Ardilab. 1963COColombian writer
- Federico Ardilab. 1977COColombian mathematician
- Mauricio Ardilab. 1979COroad bicycle racer
- Alex Canob. 1983COnot in their usual nameColombian racing cyclist
- Kevin Agudelob. 1998COnot in their usual nameColombian professional footballer born 1998
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 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3K | #1,733 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3K | #1,733 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,565 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 912 | #26,695 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 576 | #36,630 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 254 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 26 | #90 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- In which country does Ardila have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 45 thousand people named Ardila in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ardila.
- How common is the name Ardila?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,955 people named Ardila, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Ardila compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Ardila is the 139th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ardila?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ardilaThe same 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), 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, “Ardila” — the 139th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.