Halwa
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Halwa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: fruit preserved in sugar.
- PLPoland1 in 141K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 2.9M
- INIndia1 in 17M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 141K (inferred from the name graph)
271 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
fruit preserved in sugar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Halwa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
271 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Halwa is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hausa, khalwa, a religious retreat in Sufism
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, cage (of animals such as birds)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ve, beer
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Halwa mean, and where does it come from?
- fruit preserved in sugar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Halwa?
- In the etymology graph, Halva is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Halwa have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 271 people named Halwa, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Halwa most common?
- Halwa is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 141 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Halwa?
- In Poland, the national register counted 271 people named Halwa in 2026, about 1 in 141 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/halwaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Halwa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.