Cabanilla
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cabanilla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Cabanilla. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 149K
- USUnited States1 in 442K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Spanish Cabanilla. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cabanilla 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Cabanilla | 1 |
| PH Philippines | #956 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Cabanilla | 50 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Cabanilla | 6 |
| US United States | — | 752 | 1 in 442K | 793 | Cabanilla | 136 |
| AR Argentina | — | 305 | 1 in 149K | 305 | Cabanilla | 34 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Cabanilla | 4 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Cabanilla | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Víctor Manuel Albornozb. 1896ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian writer (1896-1975)
- Rida Cabanillab. 1952USAmerican politician
- Hannahlei Cabanillab. 1999USAmerican actress
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 793 | #31,303 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 752 | #30,916 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 646 | #33,333 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 305 | — |
| 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 Cabanilla mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Cabanilla. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Cabanilla have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Cabanilla in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cabanilla.
- How common is the name Cabanilla?
- In the United States, the national register counted 752 people named Cabanilla in 2010, about 1 in 442 thousand residents.
- How common is Cabanilla compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Cabanilla is the 956th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cabanillaThe 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, “Cabanilla” — the 956th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.