Usa
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Initialism of the United States of America: a country in North America
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Usa is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. In India it is the 21st most common given name.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 211as Asha(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 275as Åsa
- THThailand≈1 in 2.3Kas อุษา
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 Usa 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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- #386 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 288 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 211 (inferred from the name graph)
≈280,000 named Asha, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est., as Asha
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Asha in IN India, BD Bangladesh, KE Kenya, อุษา in TH Thailand, Åsa in SE Sweden and Usha in NP Nepal.
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)
Initialism of the United States of America: a country in North America.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Usa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #351 | ≈280,000 est. | ≈1 in 211 | 8 | Usa | 22 |
| SE Sweden | #57 | 37,097as Åsa | 1 in 275 | 37K | Åsa | 89 |
| TH Thailand | #360 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | #660,801 | อุษา | 107 |
| BD Bangladesh | #354 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 7K | listed | Asha | 48 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Asha | 13 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Usha | 48 |
| IS Iceland | — | 448as Ása | 1 in 783 | 471 | — | — |
| IN India | #21 | — | — | 723 | Asha | 229 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005). 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)
Usa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
wife of Aniruddha (P); Gayatri (N); Radha (N);
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In German, USA United States of America
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In rtm, rain
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In io, acronym of Unionita Stati di Amerika (= United States of America): a country in North America: USA
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for the United States.
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)
- Miharu Usab. 1992JPJapanese AV idol
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Usa mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of the United States of America: a country in North America. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Usa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 278 thousand people named Asha in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Usa?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 37,097 people named Åsa, about 1 in 275 residents.
- How common is Usa compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Usa is the 351st most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Usa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/usaThe 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, “Usa” — the 351st most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.