Maìla

given name · Latin script

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

Maìla is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Probably borrowed from Swedish malj, from French mail, from Latin malleus.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 2.8K(measured from records)
  • ALAlbania1 in 30K
  • BRBrazil1 in 35K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

6,014 people, 2022

Sources
71 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Maila in FI Finland, 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(measured from records)

Derivation of Maìla: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Maìla
  1. Swedishmalj(measured from records)
  2. Frenchmail(measured from records)
  3. Latinmalleus(measured from records)

Probably borrowed from Swedish malj, from French mail, from Latin malleus. Metathesis took place in order to avoid the form *malja, which would have been homonymous with malja (“goblet, bowl, cup, chalice”).

Sources 3

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Maìla 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 Maìla is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil6,0141 in 35K6K——
FI Finland2,0101 in 2.8K6KMaila1
US United States7911 in 421K780Maila14
SE Sweden2191 in 47K219—1
AL Albania1021 in 30K102——
DK Denmark261 in 226K26——

6,014 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); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • English given name32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Brazil, United States, Italy

    Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Maila, Maíla, Maïla, Máila, Mäîĺă

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 Maìla 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

What does the name Maìla mean, and where does it come from?
Probably borrowed from Swedish malj, from French mail, from Latin malleus. Recorded by Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
Is Maìla a male or female name?
Maìla 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 Maìla have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 6.0 thousand people named Maìla, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Maìla most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maìla is densest in Finland — about 1 in 2.8 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Maìla?
In Brazil, the national register counted 6,014 people named Maìla in 2022, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.

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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, “Maìla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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