Carilla

surname · Latin script

Meaning: side/sheet of paper

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kɑˈɹɪɫɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Carilla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 67K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 187K
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 1.2M

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,600 people, est.

Sources
53 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 67K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

side/sheet of paper

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Carilla 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.

Where Carilla is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈1,600 est.≈1 in 67K—Carilla21
ES Spain2681 in 187K268Carilla53
US United States≈28 est.≈1 in 12M5Carilla18
FR France≈12 est.≈1 in 5.7M—Carilla19
AR Argentina101 in 4.5M10Carilla16
NI Nicaragua≈5 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Carilla4

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); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present). 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)

19001920194019601980Emilio Carilla, b. 1914José Luis Calvo Carilla, b. 1950Jordi Monés i Carilla, b. 1961

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)

FormalDear Ms Carilla,
InformalHi Carilla,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Carilla
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—268#13,191
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—268#13,167
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—10—

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 Carilla mean, and where does it come from?
side/sheet of paper Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Carilla?
A machine transcription gives /kɑˈɹɪɫɑ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Carilla have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Carilla in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carilla.
How common is the name Carilla?
In Spain, the national register counted 268 people named Carilla, about 1 in 187 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carilla

The 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, “Carilla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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