Tuala
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tuala is a surname, most frequently recorded in the Philippines. In Samoa it is the 25th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- PHPhilippines1 in 82K◐
- USUnited States1 in 2.6M
- WSSamoa1 in 2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈143 ●
- Sources
- 75 ●
- 1 in 2.6M ◐
across 2 countries
4.6K records
Official registry-verified
United States
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●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | 2,855 | 2.4K rec. | — | — | Tuala | 16 |
| AU Australia | — | 463 | 437 rec. | — | — | Tuala | 37 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 290 | 6 rec. | — | 5 | Tuala | 7 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 162 | 82 rec. | — | — | Tuala | 28 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 136 | 130 rec. | — | — | Tuala | 9 |
| US United States | — | 129 | 1.3K rec. | 1 in 2.6M | 165 | Tuala | 75 |
| MX Mexico | — | 116 | 101 rec. | — | — | Tuala | 11 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 33 | 26 rec. | — | — | Tuala | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | 30 | 39 rec. | — | — | Tuala | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 15 | 28 rec. | — | — | Tuala | 4 |
| ES Spain | — | 14 | 10 rec. | 1 in 3.6M | 14 | Tuala | 11 |
| AR Argentina | — | 14 | 14 rec. | — | — | Tuala | 7 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English2.8K48%
- Spanish1.9K34%
- Swahili2154%
- Indonesian1402%
- French1202%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 2,751 | 48% |
| Spanish | 1,950 | 34% |
| Swahili | 215 | 4% |
| Indonesian | 140 | 2% |
| French | 120 | 2% |
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●
Tuala is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In lua, to bear, carry, fetch, transport, bring, take.
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
In kxd, towel (cloth used for wiping)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tft, a headkerchief
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, towel
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●
- Ahsee Tualab. 1989NZSamoan rugby union player
- Andrew Tualab. 1991AUAustralian rugby union player
- Enari Tualab. 1998AUAustralian rugby league footballer
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 10 sources across 6 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 108 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tuala?
- We estimate roughly 143 people bear Tuala (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Tuala have the most bearers?
- Tuala is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled tuala.
- How common is Tuala compared with other names?
- In Samoa, Tuala is the 25th most common surname of 144 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Tuala” — the 25th most common surname in Samoa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.