Mayela

Meaning & origin

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

Languages●

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

Other names spelled this way◐

Mayela is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name1.3K records spelled Mayela4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Mayéla, Máyela

• Italian given name65 records spelled Mayela2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Peru

  Also written Máyela

39 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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 57 years between 1965–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Mayela Quiroga Tamezb. 1976MXMexican politician (1976-)
• Mayela Medina Espinozab. 1999MXMexican association football player
• Mayela Reyesb. 2003MXMexican association football player
• Mayela Magrouactress
• Mayela Rodríguez-ViolanteMXresearcher

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 192 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mayela?

We estimate roughly 5.5 thousand people bear Mayela (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.

In which country does Mayela have the most bearers?

Mayela is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled mayela.

Where is Mayela most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mayela is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 1.7 thousand people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.

How common is Mayela compared with other names?

In Mexico, Mayela is the 512th most common given name of 191,605 given names recorded there.

Is Mayela a male or female name?

Mayela 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.