Dula
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dula is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the most common surname. Recorded meaning: , cf. gr. Aoi5Aoc sclav".
- ESSpain1 in 715K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 129as Dela
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 2.6Kas Dela
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 Dula 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- #487 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 341 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈850,000 named Dela, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Dela in PH Philippines, US United States, BR Brazil and 5 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)
, cf. gr. Aoi5Aoc sclav". Coincidente. trace : Dulus, Dula, Dules (An C III) si iranice : Dula (0 Dens T). 1. Dulo b. (17 B I 368). 2. Dula, mot (0 Dens T) ; tig. (16 B II 29). 3. Dulea, sau ipoc. < Radulea. Cf. blg. Ayasa prob. de aceeasi origine. Dulea v. Anatolie 3 e. Duman v. Dumineca 5. Dumetr /ab, -u v. D i m i t r i e II.
Sources 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dula 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #1 | ≈850,000 est. | ≈1 in 129 | listed | Dela | 204 |
| US United States | — | 72,109as Delacruz | 1 in 4.6K | 76K | Dela | 341 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #921 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Dela | 20 |
| BR Brazil | — | 4,520as Dela | 1 in 47K | 4.5K | Dela | 87 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #133 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Dela | 69 |
| QA Qatar | #172 | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Dela | 30 |
| XK Kosovo | #767 | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 444 | Dula | 4 |
| BH Bahrain | #245 | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Dela | 22 |
| ES Spain | — | 70 | 1 in 715K | 70 | Dela | 76 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Dula is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Ethiopia: name of Ethiopian origin
as a nameAfrican Names
In Russian, Dula. 13-14th Centuries.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Cebuano, for animals to be shy and not allow anyone to approach them
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In klw, brass tray (for serving betel nut)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hil, to mislay, to lose, to mislay
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Franz Dulab. 1814CH(1814-1892)
- Niklaus Dulab. 1814CH(1814-1883)
- Matúš Dulab. 1846SKCzechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament, senator of Czechoslovak National Parliament and slovak nation politician (1846–1926)
- Peter Dulab. 1947KEKenyan boxer
- Peter Dulab. 1981SKSlovak singer
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 45 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.3K | #12,791 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #12,650 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.2K | #13,922 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 70 | #35,515 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 70 | #35,173 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 62 | #90,038 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Dula mean?
- Recorded meaning: , cf. gr. Aoi5Aoc sclav".
- In which country does Dula have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 848 thousand people named Dela in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Dula?
- In Spain, the national register counted 70 people named Dula, about 1 in 715 thousand residents.
- How common is Dula compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Dula is the most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dula?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dulaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Dula” — the most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.