Wàs
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wàs is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 10K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 94K
- BEBelgium1 in 140K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 177 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
3,822 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Was 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Wiktionary
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wàs 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.
3,822 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Wàs?
- A machine transcription gives /wəz/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Wàs a male or female name?
- Wàs is a male 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 Wàs have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Wàs, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Wàs most common?
- Wàs is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 10 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wàs?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,822 people named Wàs in 2026, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Wàs?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/w%C3%A0sThe 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, “Wàs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.