Wâs

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Wâs is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
81 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

11 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Wàs in FR France.

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 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)

Wâs counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Wâs is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—12Wàs81
PL Poland—1.9K——
US United States—422—17
BE Belgium—84—3
NO Norway—58——

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 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Wâs is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese name20 spellings in the group

    Also written Was, Wàṥ, Wãs, Wàs, Wäs

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Was, Ŵäs, Wäs, Wąs, Wầŝ

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Wâs under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Wâs a male or female name?
Wâs 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 Wâs have the most bearers?
Wâs is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled wàs.

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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, “Wâs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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