The Vadala surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 660 people carried this name — #34,353 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 454,500 people counted. That is down 4% from 690 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Vadala surname
A surname from Arabic or Sicilian.
From Sicilian surname derived from the Arabic personal name عَبْدُ ٱللّٰه (ʕabdu llāh, “servant of God”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entries «Vadala» (English) and «Vadalà» (Italian), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 378 people named Vadala live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
58 people named Vadala live in Switzerland.
They live in 8 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Bern.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 56 people named Vadala.
Most of them — 44 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 9 départements, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 22 people named Vadala live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Hainaut.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Vadala,
with a public archive behind them.
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Eleanor Vadala 1923–2023 · engineer -
Candida Royalle 1950–2015 · screenwriter
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Vadala.
- Vaccari 319 · U.S. census
- Vaccaro 6,766 · U.S. census
- Vachal 148 · U.S. census
- Vache 148 · U.S. census
- Vacher 181 · U.S. census
- Vachon 2,928 · U.S. census
- Vagner 176 · U.S. census
- Vague 229 · U.S. census
- Vail 10,554 · U.S. census
- Vaillant 515 · U.S. census
- Vain 227 · U.S. census
- Vaine 183 · U.S. census
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