Igwé

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Igwé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Igbo Igwe.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 210K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 382K
  • USUnited States1 in 547K

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.

United States (measured from records)

608 people, 2010

Sources
43 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 210K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Igwe in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Borrowed from Igbo Igwe.

Sources 3

  • The African book of names
  • YorubaName Dictionary (CC0, tone-marked Yoruba names with meaning/etymology)
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Igwé 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.

Where Igwé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States6081 in 547K921Igwe10
ES Spain531 in 944K53——
PL Poland281 in 1.4M14——
NO Norway261 in 210K26——
CH Switzerland221 in 382K22—1
SE Sweden141 in 729K14——
DK Denmark71 in 838K7——

608 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Igwé is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Igwe

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Igwe

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Igwé under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Igwé mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Igbo Igwe. Recorded by The African book of names and YorubaName Dictionary (CC0, tone-marked Yoruba names with meaning/etymology) and 1 other source.
In which country does Igwé have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 608 people named Igwé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled igwe.
Where is Igwé most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Igwé is densest in Norway — about 1 in 210 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Igwé?
In the United States, the national register counted 608 people named Igwé in 2010, about 1 in 547 thousand residents.

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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, “Igwé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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