Sevilla

loc · Latin script

Meaning: name in SW Spain, the capital of Andalusia

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Sevilla is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nicaragua than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 316(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 3K
  • ECEcuador1 in 3.5K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Nicaragua (inferred from the name graph)

≈20,000 people, est.

Sources
321 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 316 (inferred from the name graph)

Nicaragua, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Seville in US United States.

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(measured from records)

name in SW Spain, the capital of Andalusia. The city is extremely ancient, having reputedly been founded by the Phoenicians. The origin of the name is obscure, presum¬ ably Phoenician. It is first recorded in the L form Hispalis, which was adopted into Arabic as Isbilia, and thence into Sp. as Sibilia, now Sevilla. Seth see Sheehy Seton see Seaton Setterfield see Satterthwaite

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sevilla 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.

Where Sevilla is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NI Nicaragua≈20,000 est.≈1 in 316—Sevilla51
ES Spain16,6351 in 3K17KSevilla174
VE Venezuela≈11,000 est.≈1 in 2.6K—Sevilla45
US United States8,9801 in 37K9.1KSeville321
CN China≈7,900 est.≈1 in 176K—Sevilla3
EC Ecuador4,8971 in 3.5K4.9KSevilla61
CR Costa Rica2,9161 in 1.7K2.9K—46

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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sevilla is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Germany, Spain

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Seville, Séville, Sệvịllấ

  • Indonesian name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Seville, Séville, Šëvîllã

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Sévilla, Sevillà, Sevillá

  • Swahili name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya

    Also written Seville

  • Vietnamese name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Vietnam

    Also written Seville

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Sevilla is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, Seville (the capital city of Andalusia, Spain)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, city, prov. Spain

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, A barangay of Santa Cruz, Ilocos Sur, Philippines.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Croatian, grad i riječno-morska luka na obali rijeke Guadalquivir (Španjolska), 678.200 stan.

    as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

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)

19201940196019802000Gloria Sevilla, b. 1932Carlos Sevilla, b. 1950Joëlle Sevilla, b. 1953Jordi Sevilla, b. 1956Óscar Sevilla, b. 1976Ernesto Sevilla, b. 1978Salva Sevilla, b. 1984Diego Sevilla, b. 1996Paula Sevilla, b. 1997

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 44 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Sevilla
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—17K#317
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—17K#317
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020209.1K#3,814
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020109K#3,958
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020006.3K#5,132
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20244.9K#785
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—4.9K—
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—2.9K#312
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)196691—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)201083—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)200882—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)199580—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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

Where does the name Sevilla come from?
name in SW Spain, the capital of Andalusia. The city is extremely ancient, having reputedly been founded by the Phoenicians. The origin of the name is obscure, presum¬ ably Phoenician. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
What does the name Sevilla mean?
Recorded meaning: name in SW Spain, the capital of Andalusia.
In which country does Sevilla have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Sevilla in Nicaragua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sevilla.
How common is the name Sevilla?
In Spain, the national register counted 16,635 people named Sevilla, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.

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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, “Sevilla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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