Fadila

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Arabic: generous, distinguished

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

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

Fadila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 4.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 9K
  • SYSyria≈1 in 15K

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.

Algeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈8,900 people, est.

Sources
219 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Algeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Arabic: generous, distinguished

Sources 1

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Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Fadila 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 Fadila is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DZ Algeria#284≈8,900 est.≈1 in 4.8KlistedFadila34
NG Nigeria—≈5,500 est.≈1 in 39K—Fadila28
FR France—≈4,100 est.≈1 in 16K2.8KFadila219
MA Morocco—≈3,900 est.≈1 in 9KlistedFadila41
CM Cameroon—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 16K—Fadila3
SY Syria—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 15K—Fadila9
ES Spain—6491 in 77K649Fadila11
SI Slovenia—1751 in 12K175——

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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SURS — resident population given names. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Fadila is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Morocco

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Fadila

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Brazil, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Fádila, Fàdilà, Faḍīla

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Faḍīla, Fāḍila

  • Hungarian name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Fàdilà

  • Russian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Syria, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Uzbek, Ukrainian

    Also written Фадила, Фаділа

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Fadila is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, weibl. Vom. arabischer Herkunft (arab. fadüa »moralische Vortrefflichkeit, Tugend« zu arab. fadala »sich auszeichnen, hervor­ ragen«).

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • ‘Moral excellence’, ‘virtue’.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

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)

19201940196019802000Fadila Saâdane, b. 1938Fadila Mehal, b. 1954Fadila Hachemaoui, b. 1955Fadila Benmoussa, b. 1959Fadila Khattabi, b. 1962Fadila Laanan, b. 1967Fadila Belkebla, b. 1973Fadhila Louati, b. 1979Fadila Hadj-Bouziane, b. 2000

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)

InformalBonjour Fadila,Hi Fadila, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 46 sources across 29 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 Fadila mean, and where does it come from?
Arabic: generous, distinguished Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
How do you pronounce Fadila?
A machine transcription gives /fadila/ (IPA) for French.
Is Fadila a male or female name?
Fadila is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Fadila have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 8.9 thousand people named Fadila in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fadila.
How common is the name Fadila?
In Spain, the national register counted 649 people named Fadila, about 1 in 77 thousand residents.
How common is Fadila compared with other names?
In Algeria, Fadila is the 284th most common given name of 27,215 given names recorded there.

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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, “Fadila” — the 284th most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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