Phumila
surname · Latin script
Phumila is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 2.5Kas Phumla(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia≈1 in 250Mas Phumla
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 16Mfew recordsas Phumla
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Phumila itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 named Phumla, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est., as Phumla
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Phumla in ZA South Africa, US United States, GB United Kingdom and ภูมิลา in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
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 in the world
(measured from records)Phumila 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 | #393 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Phumla | 41 |
| US United States | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 38M | listed | Phumla | 25 |
| IN India | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 251M | 1 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 16M | — | Phumla | 10 |
| TH Thailand | — | — | — | register #457,277 | ภูมิลา | 56 |
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people named Phumila?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Phumla in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, India and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Phumila?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25,000 people in South Africa have Phumla as their first given name, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Phumila compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Phumila is the 393rd most common given name of 189,620 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Phumila?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/phumilaThe 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, “Phumila” — the 393rd most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.