Humala
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: second-person singular voseo imperative of humar combined with la
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/uˈma.la/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Humala is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Peru.
- ECEcuador
- PEPeru
- FIFinland
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)second-person singular voseo imperative of humar combined with la
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Humala is read
(measured from records)Humala is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish65%
second-person singular voseo imperative of humar combined with la
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Humala in English.
- Finnish10%
hop (plant; Humulus lupulus)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian6.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Humala in Indonesian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
- PEPeru
- ECEcuador
- USUnited States
- IDIndonesia
- FIFinland
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Humala 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 urj-fin-pro, hop (Humulus lupulus)
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)- Isaac Humalab. 1931PElabour lawyer from Ayacucho, Peru
- Ulises Humalab. 1959PEPeruvian politician and academic
- Ollanta Humalab. 1962PEPresident of Peru from 2011 to 2016
- Antauro Humalab. 1963PEPeruvian Army officer
- Julio Humala LemaPEPeruvian guitarist
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)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Humala mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular voseo imperative of humar combined with la Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Humala?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /uˈma.la/ (Wiktionary); in Indonesian /humala/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Humala have the most bearers?
- Humala is most frequently recorded in Peru.
What do you want to know about Humala?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/humalaThe 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, “Humala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.