Qua
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Vietnamese: through, across (from one side to the other) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Qua is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 298 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 230Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2.5Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 225K (inferred from the name graph)
298 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Quã in CA Canada.
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)through, across (from one side to the other)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Qua is read
(measured from records)Qua is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Vietnamese51%
through, across (from one side to the other)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English34%
as; in the capacity of; acting as
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Qua 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 298 | 1 in 1.1M | 218 | Qua | 169 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 225K | — | Qua | 21 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | — | Qua | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | 27 | Qua | 51 |
| DE Germany | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | — | Qua | 20 |
| CA Canada | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Quã | 30 |
| SG Singapore | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 618K | — | Qua | 20 |
298 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)Qua is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, This name is on record in Co. Armagh in 1660 and is still there. The form in Irish is uncertain; Qua is possibly an abbreviation of MacQuaid or MacQuey. See Quee
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
In enm, alternative form of who (“who”, nominative)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nan-hbl, Irregular romanization of 官 (“official”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, where (on which side; at or in which place; in what direction; by what way)
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Su Guob. 1072not in their usual nameSong dynasty person (CBDB = 19168)
- Liu Guob. 1154not in their usual nameSong dynasty person (CBDB = 27720)
- Xiong Guob. 1506not in their usual namepolitician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Qua mean, and where does it come from?
- through, across (from one side to the other) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Qua a male or female name?
- Qua is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Qua?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 298 people named Qua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled qua. After it come Malaysia, Nigeria, United Kingdom and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Qua?
- In the United States, the national register counted 298 people named Qua in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Qua?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/quaThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Qua” — ranked 29625th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.