Ávila

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Ávila (a province of Castile and León, Spain; capital: Ávila)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/abila/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ávila is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 14th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 202(inferred from the name graph)
  • ECEcuador1 in 421
  • ARArgentina1 in 582

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)

97,314 people, 2010

#310 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
458 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 202 (inferred from the name graph)

Honduras, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ÁvilaLatin(measured from records)
АвилаCyrillic(measured from records)
ΆβιλαGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Avila in US United States, AR Argentina, BR Brazil 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(measured from records)

Ávila (a province of Castile and León, Spain; capital: Ávila)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ávila 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 Ávila is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#39397,3141 in 3.4K97KAvila458
AR Argentina#8578,1961 in 58278KAvila129
CO Colombia#76≈78,000 est.≈1 in 63355Avila165
BR Brazil#204≈62,000 est.≈1 in 3.4K5.6KAvila179
PH Philippines#76≈57,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Avila109
HN Honduras#14≈46,000 est.≈1 in 202—Avila73
EC Ecuador—40,1831 in 42140KAvila76
CR Costa Rica#60910,4451 in 48810KÁvila90
UY Uruguay—5,8461 in 5795.8K—46

97,314 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Ávila is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Àvila, Avila, Åvila, Ävila, ́ávila

  • Lao surname32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Peru

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Avila, อาบีลา, Àvila, Ávílá, Ävila

  • Croatian surname25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Spain, Philippines

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Avila, Avilla, Авила, ÃVila, Àvila

  • Korean surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Korea, United Kingdom, Peru

    Also written Avila, 아빌라, Abilla, Àvila, ÃVila

33 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18501900195020002050Tomás Arias Ávila, b. 1856Orlando Bosch, b. 1926Artur Ávila, b. 1979Marvin Ávila, b. 1985Carlos Ascues, b. 1992Ezequiel Ávila, b. 1994Ricardo Ávila, b. 1997Gonzalo Ávila Gordón, b. 1998Gastón Ávila, b. 2001Chino Pacas, b. 2006

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Ávila
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—3#113

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Ávila mean, and where does it come from?
Ávila (a province of Castile and León, Spain; capital: Ávila) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Ávila?
A machine transcription gives /abila/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Ávila have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 97 thousand people named Ávila, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled avila.
How common is the name Ávila?
In the United States, the national register counted 97,314 people named Ávila in 2010, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
How common is Ávila compared with other names?
In the United States, Ávila is the 393rd most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Ávila” — the 393rd most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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