Halila

surname · Latin script

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 114K(measured from records)
  • TNTunisia≈1 in 129K
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.4M

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

121 people

Sources
35 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 114K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Halila 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 Halila is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1211 in 1.7M121——
TN Tunisia≈91 est.≈1 in 129K—Halila3
FI Finland491 in 114K49Halila4
MY Malaysia≈24 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Halila11
US United States≈23 est.≈1 in 15MlistedHalila35
SE Sweden61 in 1.7M6—2

121 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Halila is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Hàlilà

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Halilà

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tunisia, Libya, Morocco

    Also written Hälilâ, Hàlilà

  • Bulgarian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kazakhstan

    Also written Халила

34 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)

Halila is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Czech, inflection of halit:

    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)

19001920194019601980Aimo Halila, b. 1912Jouko Halila, b. 1916Heikki Halila, b. 1952Sami HALILA, b. 1975

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 Halila,
InformalHi Halila,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname 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

How do you pronounce Halila?
A machine transcription gives /həɫiɫə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Halila have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 121 people named Halila, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Halila most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Halila is densest in Finland — about 1 in 114 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Halila?
In Brazil, the national register counted 121 people named Halila, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.

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

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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, “Halila”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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