Wà
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wà is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 298K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 364K
- USUnited States1 in 530K
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)
- Sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- 1 in 298K (inferred from the name graph)
628 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wà 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 | 628 | 1 in 530K | 437 | — | 43 |
| BR Brazil | 69 | 1 in 3.1M | 1.4K | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 58 | 1 in 298K | 44 | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 28 | 1 in 364K | 28 | — | 5 |
| FI Finland | 5 | 1 in 1.1M | 35 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
628 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Wà is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嗢
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In man, wilderness, bush
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bbj, to operate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sai-tap, forest
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bzi, pig.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kix, zero
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Wà a male or female name?
- Wà is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Wà have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 628 people named Wà, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Wà most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wà is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 298 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wà?
- In the United States, the national register counted 628 people named Wà in 2020, about 1 in 530 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Wà?
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/w%C3%A0The 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, “Wà”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.