Petela
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/petela/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Petela is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 126K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 1.1M
- BRBrazil1 in 6.4M
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 123K (inferred from the name graph)
≈520 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Petela
- Spanish:/petela/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Polish:/pɛt̪ɛla/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Petela is found
(measured from records)Petela 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Petela | 4 |
| PL Poland | 305 | 1 in 126K | 161 | Petela | 28 |
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | listed | Petela | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | 23 | Petela | 10 |
| AR Argentina | 40 | 1 in 1.1M | 40 | — | — |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Petela?
- In the etymology graph, Petelina is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Petela?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /petela/; in Polish /pɛt̪ɛla/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Petela?
- Mondonomo estimates about 522 people named Petela in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled petela. After it come Poland, United States, United Kingdom and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Petela?
- In Poland, the national register counted 305 people named Petela in 2026, about 1 in 126 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Petela?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/petelaThe 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, “Petela”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.