Ñaw
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ñaw is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Myanmar (Burma) than in any other country.
- MMMyanmar (Burma)≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 223K
- SESweden1 in 309K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Myanmar (Burma) (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈47,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Myanmar (Burma), est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ñâw in MM Myanmar (Burma).
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.
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ñaw 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Ñâw | 61 |
| US United States | 1,493 | 1 in 223K | 1.4K | — | 91 |
| AU Australia | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 332K | 1 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 33 | 1 in 309K | 33 | — | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 17 | 1 in 345K | 17 | — | — |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Ñaw is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ff, disease, sickness
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Wolof, to tailor (sth)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lid, widower
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In sbh, widow
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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 Ñaw a male or female name?
- Ñaw is a female 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 Ñaw have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 47 thousand people named Ñaw in Myanmar (Burma), more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ñâw.
- How common is the name Ñaw?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,493 people named Ñaw in 2020, about 1 in 223 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ñaw?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B1awThe 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, “Ñaw”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.