Dilla

surname · English · Latin script

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

Dilla is a surname, most frequently recorded in the Philippines. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines1 in 35K
  • USUnited States1 in 749K
  • IDIndonesia1 in 36K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

Where Dilla is recorded, by country
CountryShare of this name
PH Philippines5,53946%
US United States3,54029%
ES Spain9428%
IN India4083%
ID Indonesia3813%

10,810 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages

  • English9.3K76%
  • Spanish9878%
  • Indonesian3893%
  • Hindi3763%
  • Malay2552%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English9,30676%
Spanish9878%
Indonesian3893%
Hindi3763%
Malay2552%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Notable people with this name

198019902000Karsten Dilla, b. 1989Pere Cuadros i Dilla, b. 1997Cristina Dilla, b. 2000

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

Attested in 27 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Dilla
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020374#58,578
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010336#60,045
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000291#64,008
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)191#17,143
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)191#17,106
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202438#22,915
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202231
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)25#52,323
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)21#92,291
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202418#5,515
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)194718
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)194714

Reference works 3

  • Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-09-03 data build · 408 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dilla?
Our records include 10,810 bearers of Dilla across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Dilla have the most bearers?
Dilla is most frequently recorded in the Philippines.
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Dilla”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.

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