Zhala
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zhaɫa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zhala is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Azerbaijan than in any other country.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 320Kas Жала
- PLPoland1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zhala itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Azerbaijan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Zala in SI Slovenia, Жала in RU Russia and Zhalah in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zhala 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ Azerbaijan | #467 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Zhala | 23 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 5,630as Zala | 1 in 373 | 5.8K | Zala | 4 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 320K | — | Жала | 83 |
| US United States | — | 250as Zala | 1 in 1.3M | 318 | Zhalah | 10 |
| GE Georgia | — | 147as ჟალა | 1 in 27K | 147 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 38as Zala | 1 in 268K | 38 | Zhala | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 25 | 1 in 1.5M | 25 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 25as Zala | 1 in 235K | 25 | — | — |
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: SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
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 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 27 | #20,354 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 25 | #3,700 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 25 | #3,701 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 18 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 18 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 17 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 17 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 16 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Zhala?
- A machine transcription gives /zhaɫa/ (IPA) for Azerbaijani.
- Is Zhala a male or female name?
- Zhala 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 Zhala have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.7 thousand people named Zhala in Azerbaijan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zhala.
- How common is the name Zhala?
- In Poland, the national register counted 25 people named Zhala in 2026, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
- How common is Zhala compared with other names?
- In Azerbaijan, Zhala is the 467th most common given name of 28,848 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zhala?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zhalaThe 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, “Zhala” — the 467th most common given name in Azerbaijan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.