Zeila
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Somali: port town on the Gulf of Aden; former capital of Ifat (African Names)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/sɛila/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Zeila is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 1,170 people, counted by IBGE in 2022.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 130Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 160Kfew records
- BRBrazil1 in 181K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 94K (inferred from the name graph)
1,170 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Zeila
- Spanish:/sɛila/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/ʃejlɐ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Somali: port town on the Gulf of Aden; former capital of Ifat
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zeila 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 1,170 | 1 in 181K | 1.4K | Zeila | 54 |
| MX Mexico | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 321K | — | Zeila | 38 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Zeila | 11 |
| PE Peru | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 164K | — | Zeila | 16 |
| CO Colombia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 362K | — | Zeila | 14 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Zeila | 10 |
| HN Honduras | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Zeila | 5 |
| NI Nicaragua | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Zeila | 4 |
1,170 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA). 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)- Zeila Occhipintiresearcher
- Zeila ZanolliITresearcher
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zeila mean, and where does it come from?
- Somali: port town on the Gulf of Aden; former capital of Ifat Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Zeila?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /sɛila/; in Portuguese /ʃejlɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Zeila a male or female name?
- Zeila is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)).
- Which countries have the most people named Zeila?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Zeila, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zeila. After it come Mexico, Venezuela, Peru and Colombia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Zeila?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,170 people named Zeila in 2022, about 1 in 181 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zeila?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zeilaThe 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, “Zeila” — ranked 3664th in Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.