Vola
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A velum of silica in some diatoms
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/voʊɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vola is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Madagascar than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M(measured from records)
- MGMadagascar≈1 in 2K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 302K
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.
- Madagascar (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Madagascar, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
third-person singular past historic of voler
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Vola is read(measured from records)
Vola is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English47%
A velum of silica in some diatoms
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Vola in Hindi.
- French7.3%
third-person singular past historic of voler
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vola 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MG Madagascar | #320 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Vola | 15 |
| US United States | — | 149 | 1 in 2.2M | 156 | Vola | 97 |
| FR France | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 655K | 53 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Vola | 26 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | listed | Vola | 10 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 302K | — | Vola | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 469K | — | Vola | 3 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the xinhua-italian-manual 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Vola 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 men, n., resisting; re- sist. Ti guni a ngi vola. Vo =f9, plu. voG, age. Ngi vodli ye nu yéla gboyongo mahu pu, He was thirty years old
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In Latin, The palm of the hand or the sole of the foot; a volar surface.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fj, put up a fish-fence (at the mouth of a river)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Albanian, first-person singular aorist of vjel
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)
- Vicki Volab. 1916USAmerican actress (1916-1985)
- François Volab. 1953FRFrench composer and guitarist
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 156 | #105,905 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 149 | #116,829 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 147 | #123,144 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 53 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 19 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Vola mean?
- In English, A velum of silica in some diatoms
- Where does the name Vola come from?
- third-person singular past historic of voler Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Vola?
- A machine transcription gives /voʊɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Vola a male or female name?
- Vola is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Vola have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Vola in Madagascar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vola.
- How common is the name Vola?
- In the United States, the national register counted 149 people named Vola in 2020, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
- How common is Vola compared with other names?
- In Madagascar, Vola is the 320th most common given name of 2,842 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vola?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/volaThe 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, “Vola” — the 320th most common given name in Madagascar. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.