Sillah
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sillah is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In the Gambia it is the 12th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 393K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 30K
- SESweden1 in 76K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 157 (measured from records)
- 1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
1,689 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
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)
Sillah 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 1,689 | 1 in 30K | 1.7K | Sillah | 40 |
| US United States | — | 847 | 1 in 393K | 1.2K | Sillah | 157 |
| SE Sweden | — | 135 | 1 in 76K | 135 | Sillah | 16 |
| FI Finland | — | 70 | 1 in 80K | 70 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 66 | 1 in 83K | 66 | — | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 27 | 1 in 311K | 27 | Sillah | 4 |
| GM Gambia | #12 | — | — | 3 | Sillah | 53 |
1,689 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IEC — Nominated Candidates National Assembly Elections 2022; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)
- Ebrima Sillahb. 1950GMGambian politician
- Mohamed Sillahb. 2002SLSierra Leonean basketball player (born 2002)
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 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.7K | #2,790 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.7K | #2,786 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,799 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 847 | #28,241 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 420 | #47,485 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 135 | #5,693 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 70 | #17,082 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 66 | #21,596 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 36 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 27 | #29,501 |
| GM Gambia | IEC — Nominated Candidates National Assembly Elections 2022 | 2022 | 3 | #9 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- In which country does Sillah have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Sillah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sillah.
- Where is Sillah most common?
- Sillah is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 30 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sillah?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,689 people named Sillah, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Sillah compared with other names?
- In the Gambia, Sillah is the 12th most common surname of 178 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/sillahThe 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, “Sillah” — the 12th most common surname in Gambia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.