Mwila
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mwila/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mwila is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. In Zambia it is the 19th most common surname.
- PLPoland1 in 7.7M(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.7M (inferred from the name graph)
5 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
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)
Mwila 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 3 | — | — |
| ZM Zambia | #19 | — | — | 94K | Mwila | 44 |
| US United States | — | — | — | listed | Mwila | 63 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | — | — | — | Mwila | 13 |
| KE Kenya | — | — | — | — | Mwila | 10 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | — | — | — | Mwila | 8 |
5 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: Zambia top-100 surnames (surnam.es); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mwila Kabweb. 2000AUresearcher
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)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZM Zambia | Zambia top-100 surnames (surnam.es) | — | 94K | #18 |
| ZM Zambia | ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results | 2021 | 21 | #22 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #278,577 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #369,826 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Mwila?
- A machine transcription gives /mwila/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Mwila have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 5 people named Mwila, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mwila most common?
- Mwila is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.7 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mwila?
- In Poland, the national register counted 5 people named Mwila in 2026, about 1 in 7.7 million residents.
- How common is Mwila compared with other names?
- In Zambia, Mwila is the 19th most common surname of 16,584 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mwilaThe 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, “Mwila” — the 19th most common surname in Zambia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.