Avila

At the 2020 census, 96,191 Americans bore the surname Avila — 326th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 3,107.

By the numbers

People: 96,191
Rank: 326th
How common: 1 in 3,107
Per 100,000: 32.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish or Galician Ávila.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Avila described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 90.3%
White, not Hispanic 7.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Avila

John of Ávila (1499–1569)Spanish priest, Doctor of the Church
Artur Ávila (born 1979)Brazilian and French mathematician
Ricardo Ávila (born 1997)Panamanian footballer
Ántony de Ávila (born 1962)Colombian footballer
Ezequiel Ávila (born 1994)Argentinian association football player
Irven Ávila (born 1990)footballer
Gastón Ávila (born 2001)Argentine footballer
Edwin Ávila (born 1989)Colombia racing cyclist

People named Avila with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Avila

Also a first name

Avila has been given to 801 American babies as a first name since 1925, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.