Sula
loc · Latin script
Meaning: A barangay of Bacacay, Albay, Philippines
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Sula is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 3Kas Sola(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 150Kas Sola
- ALAlbania≈1 in 481
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sula itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 263 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 481 (inferred from the name graph)
16,413 named Sola
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Albania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sola in US United States, ES Spain, NO Norway.
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)A barangay of Bacacay, Albay, Philippines.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Sula, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sula 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 | 16,413as Sola | 1 in 3K | 16K | Sola | 87 |
| AL Albania | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 481 | 2.5K | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 5,015as Sola | 1 in 9.1K | 5K | — | 15 |
| US United States | 2,218as Sola | 1 in 150K | 2.4K | Sola | 263 |
| BR Brazil | 2,214as Sola | 1 in 96K | 2.2K | Sula | 62 |
| NO Norway | 828as Sola | 1 in 6.6K | 828 | Sola | 19 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 3.2K | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 502 | 1 in 21K | 504 | — | 2 |
16,413 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Sula is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In xgn-pro, loose, lax, vacant
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Samoan, speak sincerely from the very depths of one’s heart (like someone who is deeply moved); make formal acknowledgement, give thanks (for presents, honors, speeches, etc.)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Filipino, carbuncle; shiny, bright deep red gem (especially a garnet with a smooth, convex surface)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In asl, animal traps; stakes at the base of garden fence posts
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Latvian, juice (liquids found in fruits which people can drink)
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hannes Sulab. 1894FIFinnish-Canadian journalist and trade unionist
- Zeqir Sulab. 1949ALAlbanian chess player
- Ayşe Sula Köseoğlub. 1969TRTurkish attorney and statesperson (born 1969)
- Dashnor Sulab. 1969ALAlbanian politician
- Mirela Sulab. 1975ALAlbanian journalist
- Ion Sulab. 1980MDMoldovan politician
- Jessica Sulab. 1994GBBritish actress (born 1994)
- Sofia Sulab. 2002FIFinnish figure skater
- Sula HoodUSassistant professor
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)51 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 626 | #38,120 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 470 | #45,495 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 434 | #46,240 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 54 | #42,474 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 54 | #42,040 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 16 | #46,973 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #232,223 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1 | #25,978 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Sula mean, and where does it come from?
- A barangay of Bacacay, Albay, Philippines. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Sula have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Sola, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sula?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 502 people named Sula, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sula?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sulaThe 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, “Sula”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.