Spela
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Spela is a given name, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country, where it is the 65th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and Slovenian, written in the Latin script.
- SISlovenia1 in 306◐
- HRCroatia1 in 264K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈6.9K ●
- Sources
- 57 ●
- 1 in 306 ◐
across 6 countries
1.1K records
Official registry-verified
Slovenia
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Špela in HR Croatia, RS Serbia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | #65 | 6,882△ | 639 rec. | 1 in 306 | 6.9K | Spela | 57 |
| US United States | — | 144 | 125 rec. | — | — | Spela | 38 |
| DE Germany | — | 86 | 82 rec. | — | — | Spela | 28 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 55 | 35 rec. | — | — | Spela | 12 |
| AU Australia | — | 52 | 38 rec. | — | — | Spela | 20 |
| AT Austria | — | 29 | 14 rec. | — | 2 | Spela | 11 |
| CA Canada | — | 20 | 20 rec. | — | — | Spela | 5 |
| HR Croatia | — | 16 | 46 rec. | 1 in 264K | 22 | Špela | 18 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 14 | 8 rec. | — | — | Spela | 8 |
| PT Portugal | — | 13 | 6 rec. | — | — | Spela | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 10 | 5 rec. | — | — | Spela | 5 |
| BE Belgium | — | 8 | 9 rec. | — | — | Spela | 2 |
Roughly 6.9K people in Slovenia bear this name (about 1 in 306). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hungarian14K91%
- Slovenian4073%
- English3762%
- Swahili1201%
- German1001%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 13,777 | 91% |
| Slovenian | 407 | 3% |
| English | 376 | 2% |
| Swahili | 120 | 1% |
| German | 100 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Spela is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, to play; a game, a tune, a melody, an instrument or a role
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, to play
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●
- Špela Rozinb. 1943SISlovene actress
- Špela Pretnarb. 1973SISlovenian female alpine skier
- Špela Čadežb. 1977SISlovene film director
- Špela Bračunb. 1977SIOlympic alpine skier
- Špela Ponomarenkob. 1981SISlovenian canoeist
- Špela Kernb. 1990SISlovenian cyclist
- Špela Kolaričb. 1993SISlovene chess player
- Špela Rogeljb. 1994SISlovenian ski jumper
- Špela Peršeb. 1996SISlovenian swimmer
- Špela Kolblb. 1998SISlovene association football player
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 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 21 | #24,758 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #39,653 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #43,122 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #12,564 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 2 | #1,868 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | #31,740 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 1 | #3,534 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #83,057 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2006 | 1 | #2,587 |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 9 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Spela?
- We estimate roughly 6.9 thousand people bear Spela (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Spela have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 6.9 thousand people bear Spela in Slovenia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled spela.
- Where is Spela most common?
- Spela is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 306 people carrying it.
- How common is Spela compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Spela is the 65th most common given name of 11,759 given names recorded there.
- Is Spela a male or female name?
- Spela 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data
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, “Spela” — the 65th most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.