Wãh

given name · Latin script

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

Wãh is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Nepali [script needed] (wah donka).

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 55K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 107K
  • FIFinland1 in 151K

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)

1,125 people, 2020

Record sources
113 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Wah 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

(measured from records)

From Nepali [script needed] (wah donka).

Cited for this meaning 2

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Wãh 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.

Where Wãh is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,1251 in 296K3.9KWah34
NL Netherlands3131 in 55K192—1
SE Sweden951 in 107K95——
FI Finland371 in 151K55——
CR Costa Rica21 in 2.5M2——

1,125 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • English given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Dutch, Afrikaans

    Also written Wah, Wâh, Wàh, Ŵăĥ, Wåh

  • Swahili given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, South Africa, Singapore

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Wah

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 Wãh 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

What does the name Wãh mean, and where does it come from?
From Nepali [script needed] (wah donka). Recorded by Wiktionary and A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
Is Wãh a male or female name?
Wãh 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 Wãh have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Wãh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wah.
Where is Wãh most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wãh is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 55 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Wãh?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,125 people named Wãh in 2020, about 1 in 296 thousand residents.

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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, “Wãh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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