Zyla
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zyla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Polish Żyła.
- USUnited States1 in 493K(measured from records)
- ALAlbania≈1 in 15K
- NONorway1 in 101K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
675 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Albania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- PolishŻyła(measured from records)
- Proto-Slavic*žila(inferred from the name graph)via Żyła
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Borrowed from Polish Żyła.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zyla 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 675 | 1 in 493K | 980 | Zyla | 169 |
| DE Germany | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 258K | — | Zyla | 57 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 300K | 48 | Zyla | 41 |
| AL Albania | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 11 | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 389K | — | Zyla | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | 82 | 1 in 131K | 82 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 54 | 1 in 101K | 54 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Zyla | 14 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Zyla | 2 |
675 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hans Zylab. 1919ATAustrian politician (1919-1999)
- Helmut Zylab. 1952DEGerman association football player (1952-2016)
- Jack ZylaUSbasketball player
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 33 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 676 | #32,161 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 675 | #33,731 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 640 | #37,403 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 54 | #24,911 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 48 | #52,114 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Zyla mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Polish Żyła. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Zyla have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 675 people named Zyla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zyla.
- How common is the name Zyla?
- In the United States, the national register counted 675 people named Zyla in 2010, about 1 in 493 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zylaThe same 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), 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, “Zyla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.