Isola
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived on an island, isola (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/isola/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Isola is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 5.1K(measured from records)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 10K
- ITItaly≈1 in 25Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 213 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Isola
- Spanish:/isola/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)topographic name for someone who lived on an island, isola.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Isola is found
(measured from records)Isola 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.
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Isola is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, oriundo de locais chamados Isola; do lat. insula, ‘ilha’, por vezes em sentido figurado.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, DERIVATI: Isolani. / Diffuso Ivi 147 prev. in Liguria, é formato dai toponimi Isola (GE, SP), Isola del Cantone (GE), Isola Sant’Antonio (AL), Isolabona (IM).
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In French, third-person singular past historic of isoler
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Interlingua, present of isolar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, island, isle
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)- Vincent Isolab. 1862FRFrench opera manager
- Maija Isolab. 1927FIFinnish textile designer for Marimekko (1927–2001)
- Federica Isolab. 1999ITItalian fencer
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)48 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Isola?
- In Spanish /isola/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Isola mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived on an island, isola. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Isola?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Isola in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled isola. After it come Italy, Argentina, Finland and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Isola most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Isola is densest in Finland — about 1 in 5.1 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Isola?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,237 people named Isola, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/isolaThe 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, “Isola”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.