Zoela

Name: Zoela: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10
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surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Zoela is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Montenegro than in any other country.

rarermore common

USUnited States1 in 519Kas Zula(measured from records)
GYGuyana1 in 750K
MEMontenegro≈1 in 439as Zula

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 Zoela 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.

: Montenegro (inferred from the name graph)
Sources: 133 (measured from records)
: 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ZulaLatin

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Zuela

Locally spelled Zula in US United States, GB United Kingdom, ME Montenegro and 4 more.

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 across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zoela 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.

Where Zoela is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
ME Montenegro	#109	≈1,400 est.	≈1 in 439	—	Zula	1
US United States	—	641as Zula	1 in 519K	634	Zula	133
GH Ghana	—	≈280 est.	≈1 in 104K	—	Zula	1
GB United Kingdom	—	≈160 est.	≈1 in 422K	listed	Zula	31
IT Italy	—	≈150 est.	≈1 in 428K	listed	Zula	2
XK Kosovo	—	≈110 est.	≈1 in 18K	54	—	—
SG Singapore	—	≈29 est.	≈1 in 213K	—	Zula	3
IE Ireland	—	≈22 est.	≈1 in 231K	—	Zula	1
GY Guyana	—	1	1 in 750K	1	—	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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Zoela is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Zoéla

14 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Zoela under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Zoela have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Zula in Montenegro, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Zoela most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zoela is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though Montenegro holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Zoela?: In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Zoela in 2025, about 1 in 750 thousand residents.
How common is Zoela compared with other names?: In Montenegro, Zoela is the 109th most common given name of 1,036 given names recorded there.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zoela

The 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 2026-10-10 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, “Zoela” — the 109th most common given name in Montenegro. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)