Xela
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Quetzaltenango (a city in Guatemala)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kslə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Xela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 163K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.2M
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M
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
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 163K (inferred from the name graph)
307 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Quetzaltenango (a city in Guatemala)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Xela 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 | 307 | 1 in 163K | 307 | Xela | 7 |
| US United States | 227 | 1 in 1.5M | 223 | Xela | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 15 | 1 in 1.2M | 15 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
307 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Xela is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Kurdish, famine, hunger, starvation, shortage
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Maltese, to accuse, indict
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Xhosa, to confess
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 307 | #6,504 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 223 | #35,436 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 212 | #3,903 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 42 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 32 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 32 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 27 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 16 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Xela mean, and where does it come from?
- Quetzaltenango (a city in Guatemala) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Xela?
- In the etymology graph, Angela, Angel and Angie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Xela?
- A machine transcription gives /kslə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Xela a male or female name?
- Xela is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Xela have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 307 people named Xela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled xela.
- Where is Xela most common?
- Xela is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 163 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Xela?
- In Spain, the national register counted 307 people named Xela, about 1 in 163 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Xela?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/xelaThe 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, “Xela”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.