Velilla
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/beliʎa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Velilla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 26K
- COColombia≈1 in 28K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
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)
Velilla 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Velilla | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,936 | 1 in 26K | 1.9K | Velilla | 115 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 1 | Velilla | 71 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Velilla | 27 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 430K | — | Velilla | 1 |
| PY Paraguay | #552 | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Velilla | 27 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #352 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Velilla | 14 |
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); the co-datosgov-candidates 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mercedes de Velillab. 1852ESSpanish writer and poet (1852-1918)
- Abel Velilla Sarasolab. 1901ESSpanish politician and lawyer (1901-1982)
- Luis del Valb. 1944ESnot in their usual nameSpanish journalist
- José María Fidalgob. 1948ESnot in their usual nameSpanish trade unionist, politician and physician
- Hilario Camachob. 1948ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer-songwriter (1948-2006)
- Justo Navarrob. 1953ESnot in their usual nameSpanish writer, translator, and journalist
- Rodrigo Velillab. 1989ARArgentine actor, singer and dragqueen
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.9K | #2,480 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.9K | #2,479 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 1 | #115 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Velilla?
- A machine transcription gives /beliʎa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Velilla have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.2 thousand people named Velilla in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled velilla.
- How common is the name Velilla?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,936 people named Velilla, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Velilla compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Velilla is the 352nd most common surname of 8,205 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/velillaThe 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, “Velilla” — the 352nd most common surname in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.