Aa

loc · Latin script

Meaning: A member of Alcoholics Anonymous

Aa is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.

  • NONorway1 in 12K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 77K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 288K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Norway (measured from records)

468 people

Record sources
149 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

A member of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Aa 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 Aa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway4681 in 12K468—13
DK Denmark761 in 77K76—1
NL Netherlands601 in 288K60Aa80
PL Poland21 in 19M2—2
US United States——124Aa149

468 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 — Surname Frequency 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)

Aa is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Àà, Ââ, Ãa, Äå, Ãå

  • Malay given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Aa', Ãã, Àà, Ãa, Ãắ

  • Spanish surname84 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Portugal

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Aâ, Aã, Ãã, Ăa, Ãâ

  • Arabic surname66 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria

    Also written Âa, Aâ, Àà, Ää, Ãã

  • a separate name16 spellings in the group

    Also written Âå, Äą, Åã, Aä, Aå

  • French given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Congo - Kinshasa

    Also written Ãa, Aà, Àà, Àa, Âa

  • a separate name18 spellings in the group

    Also written Åa, Äã, Äå, Ãa, Ãã

56 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Aa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In dag, righteousness. Church word : wuntii tuma ‘ righteous actions’

    as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD

  • In cdo, to get away another's place as by slander, Seis) f = draws (all the custom) to his side. SN alee J )Rmutually drawing away each other’s custom. ‘@) sudden distortions or pains

    as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect

  • In cdo, another name for tea, tea drinking Y# a a river in Shensi, the glare on water. wee a city in Honan. KERB a a white horse with black mane, S

    as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect

  • In cdo, a cross-road, a thoroughfare FEE a forked road. HE ie same. Bt Gx — timid, fearful, to look at, S. HAIR alarmed

    as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect

  • In dag, an exclamation of disgust or Aa! bozuyu ka a nig lala? censure. Ah! Why have you done this?

    as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD

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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
190019201940196019802000Bertel Aa, b. 1919Hubertus Antonius van der Aa, b. 1935Herman Aa, b. 1943Brynjar Aa, b. 1960Terje Aa, b. 1961A Lamusi, b. 1989

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence

(measured from records)

17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Aa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—468#2,990
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2021246—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2022242—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2020242—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2023241—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2019239—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2018239—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2024238—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025234—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000124#127,186
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—76#7,094
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200760#27,650

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Aa mean, and where does it come from?
A member of Alcoholics Anonymous. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Aa have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 468 people named Aa, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Aa most common?
Aa is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Aa?
In Norway, the national register counted 468 people named Aa, about 1 in 12 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, “Aa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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