Pelota
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Any of a variety of Spanish sports played against a wall
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pelota is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Philippines.
- PHPhilippines
- PTPortugal
- DODominican Republic
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Any of a variety of Spanish sports played against a wall.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
How Pelota is read(measured from records)
Pelota is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- English57%
Any of a variety of Spanish sports played against a wall.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish25%
ball (a round or ellipsoidal object)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French7.5%
third-person singular past historic of peloter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Pelota counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |
|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | Pelota | 10 |
| US United States | — | Pelota | 8 |
| BR Brazil | — | Pelota | 9 |
| ES Spain | — | Pelota | 4 |
| MX Mexico | — | Pelota | 7 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | Pelota | 2 |
| PT Portugal | — | Pelota | 5 |
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.
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)
Pelota is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, a small ball or sphere
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, singular future passive participle of peli
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, inflection of pelottaa:
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pelota mean, and where does it come from?
- Any of a variety of Spanish sports played against a wall. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Pelota have the most bearers?
- Pelota is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled pelota.
What do you want to know about Pelota?
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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, “Pelota”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.