Wahla
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Wahla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 3M(measured from records)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 17K
- BHBahrain≈1 in 46K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, 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)
Wahla 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 2 | Wahla | 21 |
| IN India | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | — | Wahla | 18 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Wahla | 9 |
| US United States | 110 | 1 in 3M | 123 | Wahla | 82 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Wahla | 9 |
| OM Oman | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Wahla | 1 |
| BH Bahrain | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Wahla | 2 |
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; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election. 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)
Wahla is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In mkj, to carry away
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Xhosa, to jingle
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)
- Ivan Wahlab. 1963CZCzech architect
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 13 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 123 | #139,785 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 110 | #149,395 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 2 | #423 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Wahla have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Wahla in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wahla.
- How common is the name Wahla?
- In the United States, the national register counted 110 people named Wahla in 2010, about 1 in 3.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Wahla?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wahlaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Wahla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.