Salwą
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Salwą is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Brazil it is the 3rd most common surname.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 9K(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 101as Sousa
- ARArgentina1 in 178as Sosa
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Salwą itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- #36 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 427 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.0K (inferred from the name graph)
256,043 named Sosa
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sousa in AR Argentina, PT Portugal, UY Uruguay and 2 more, Souza in BR Brazil, US United States, Silva in EC Ecuador and Salwa in MA Morocco.
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)
Salwa är ett arabiskt kvinnonamn som betyder ’tröst’.
Sources 7
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salwą 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | — | 256,043as Sosa | 1 in 178 | 256K | Sousa | 76 |
| US United States | — | 161,633as Silva | 1 in 2.1K | 163K | Souza | 427 |
| PT Portugal | #6 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 101 | listed | Sousa | 212 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 75,135as Sosa | 1 in 45 | 75K | Sousa | 32 |
| ES Spain | #384 | 48,968as Silva | 1 in 1K | 49K | Sousa | 135 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 47,379as Silva | 1 in 357 | 47K | Silva | 22 |
| AO Angola | #14 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 786 | 4 | Sousa | 66 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Salwa | 75 |
| BR Brazil | #3 | 3,877as Sosa | 1 in 55K | 224K | Souza | 310 |
256,043 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national), counting the spelling sosa. 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Salwą a male or female name?
- Salwą is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Salwą have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 256 thousand people named Sosa, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Salwą?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 256,043 people named Sosa, about 1 in 178 residents.
- How common is Salwą compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Salwą is the 3rd most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salw%C4%85The 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, “Salwą” — the 3rd most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.