Walla

loc · Latin script

Meaning: She gathers the

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

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

Walla is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Mexico.

rarermore common
  • MXMexico

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
32 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

She gathers the

Sources 1

  • The African book of names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Walla counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Walla is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico——Walla7
US United States—2.5K—27
BR Brazil—190—32
NO Norway—170—1
PL Poland—62——
CZ Czechia—55——

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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

Walla is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In dag, 1. whether (when introducing a sentence) 2. of course (when used sentence final)

    as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD

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)

18001850190019502000József Walla, b. 1843Josef Walla, b. 1870Michael Walla, b. 1892Marianne Walla, b. 1905Hans Walla, b. 1909August Walla, b. 1936Friedrich Walla, b. 1941Kah Walla, b. 1965Chris Walla, b. 1975

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 30 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Walla
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.5K#12,536
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.2K#20,543
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201K#25,516
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—170#9,338
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202662—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—62#43,428
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202661—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—61#43,440
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—55#27,229
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—55#10,187
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—33#139,729
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Walla mean, and where does it come from?
She gathers the Recorded by The African book of names.
How do you pronounce Walla?
A machine transcription gives /ˈwɔɫɑ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Walla have the most bearers?
Walla is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled walla.

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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, “Walla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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