Places

• the word "Mauvilla" (also "Maubilla") which became: Mavilla, Mauvila, Maubila. By 1693, the name had become fairly standardized as "Mobila" or "Movila".
• variant of Mabila
  Mabila
  The town of Mabila was a small fortress town known to Chief Tuskaloosa in 1540, in a region of present-day central Alabama. The exact location has been debated for centuries...
  
  , a Mississippian fortress town of Chief Tuskaloosa, who ambushed Hernando de Soto's Spanish expedition in 1540. The tribe by this name later encountered by the French around Mobile Bay are theorized by scholars to be descended from this group of people.
• the origin of the name for Mobile, Alabama
  Mobile, Alabama
  Mobile is the third most populous city in the Southern US state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County. It is located on the Mobile River and the central Gulf Coast of the United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 during the 2010 census. It is the largest...
  
  
• the Bahia de la Mobila, which was named in English Mobile Bay
  Mobile Bay
  Mobile Bay is an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, lying within the state of Alabama in the United States. Its mouth is formed by the Fort Morgan Peninsula on the eastern side and Dauphin Island, a barrier island on the western side. The Mobile River and Tensaw River empty into the northern end of the...
  
   (earlier as Bahia de Espiritu Santo)

Other

• the towboat Mauvilla in the 1993 Big Bayou Canot train wreck near Mobile, Alabama