Guila
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Short form/variant of Guillaume or Guillem, from Germanic wil “will, desire” + helm “helmet, protection”
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡwiɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Guila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.9M(measured from records)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 263K
- PAPanama≈1 in 315K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 263K (inferred from the name graph)
≈390 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Short form/variant of Guillaume or Guillem, from Germanic wil “will, desire” + helm “helmet, protection”.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Guila 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 263K | — | Guila | 1 |
| PH Philippines | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 595K | — | Guila | 20 |
| US United States | 114 | 1 in 2.9M | 108 | Guila | 88 |
| FR France | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 636K | listed | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 78 | 1 in 2.7M | 78 | Guila | 20 |
| SG Singapore | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 437K | — | Guila | 3 |
| PA Panama | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 315K | — | Guila | 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)
Guila 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 French, Origine hébraïque, « joie ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In Romansh, needle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Guila Bustabob. 1916USAmerican musician (1916–2002)
- Guila Flintb. 1954BRBrazilian journalist (1954-2017)
- Guila Clara Kessousb. 1978FRFrench actress
- Guila AlvarezFilipino Actor
- Guila GanemFRresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-5244-4979
- Guila DelouyaCAresearcher
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)
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 27 | #160,000 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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 Guila mean, and where does it come from?
- Short form/variant of Guillaume or Guillem, from Germanic wil “will, desire” + helm “helmet, protection”. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Guila?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡwiɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Guila a male or female name?
- Guila 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 Guila have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 387 people named Guila in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guila.
- How common is the name Guila?
- In the United States, the national register counted 114 people named Guila in 2020, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Guila?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guilaThe 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, “Guila”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.