Dàvila
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dàvila is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Dávila (“from Ávila”) or from Galician Davila (“from Vila”).
- NINicaragua≈1 in 183(inferred from the name graph)
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 449
- PEPeru≈1 in 552
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- #710 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 425 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 183 (inferred from the name graph)
≈58,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Davila in PE Peru, US United States, VE Venezuela and 3 more and Dávila in UY Uruguay.
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(measured from records)
- SpanishDávila“from Ávila”(measured from records)
- GalicianDavila“from Vila”(measured from records)
From Spanish Dávila (“from Ávila”) or from Galician Davila (“from Vila”).
Sources 1
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dàvila 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #67 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 552 | — | Davila | 117 |
| US United States | #737 | 44,388 | 1 in 7.5K | 45K | Davila | 425 |
| NI Nicaragua | #16 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 183 | — | Davila | 50 |
| VE Venezuela | #156 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 884 | — | Davila | 77 |
| BR Brazil | #482 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 9.6K | Davila | 119 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 8,723 | 1 in 388 | 8.7K | Dávila | 46 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #79 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 449 | — | Davila | 67 |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
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 Dàvila mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Dávila (“from Ávila”) or from Galician Davila (“from Vila”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Dàvila have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 58 thousand people named Dàvila in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled davila.
- How common is the name Dàvila?
- In the United States, the national register counted 44,388 people named Dàvila in 2010, about 1 in 7.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Dàvila compared with other names?
- In Peru, Dàvila is the 67th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%A0vilaThe 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, “Dàvila” — the 67th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.