Suela

Spellings & scripts●

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●

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology 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◐

Suela is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese given name7.4K records spelled Suela5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Philippines, United States, Italy

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Suêla, Suelã, Suéla

• English surname4.3K records spelled Suela73 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Nigeria, Philippines, Spain

  Languages: English, German, Spanish

  Also written Sola, Sula, Solus, Solà, Solá

• French given name1.2K records spelled Suela5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States

  Also written Süela, Suëlã, Suéla

• Norwegian Bokmål given name135 records spelled Suela6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Denmark

  Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish

  Also written Suelã

33 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.

Other recorded senses●

Suela 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 Spanish, sole (of a shoe)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Basque, "Suela de zapato" Elexp Berg. .

  as a word·Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

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.

Over time●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 42 years between 1973–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Suela Konjarib. 1963ALAlbanian actor
• Suela Bakob. 1976ALAlbanian actress
• Suela Mëhillib. 1994ALAlbanian alpine skier
• Suela JaninaALAlbanian diplomat

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 · 151 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Suela?

We estimate roughly 3.0 thousand people bear Suela (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Suela have the most bearers?

We estimate about 2.5 thousand people bear Suela in Albania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled suela.

Where is Suela most common?

Suela is densest in Albania, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.

How common is Suela compared with other names?

In Albania, Suela is the 127th most common given name of 12,508 given names recorded there.

Is Suela a male or female name?

Suela 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.

What does the name Suela mean?

Recorded meaning: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *sola, from Latin solea (“sole”). Compare Portuguese sola, Galician sola, Italian suola.