Anua

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Malay: household cleaning activities simultaneously in each house for 1-2 days before the fasting month

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Anua is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 2.1M(measured from records)

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.

Spain (measured from records)

24 people

Sources
11 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.1M (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Añua in ES Spain.

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)

household cleaning activities simultaneously in each house for 1-2 days before the fasting month

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

How Anua is read(measured from records)

Anua is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Malay40%

    household cleaning activities simultaneously in each house for 1-2 days before the fasting month

    as a wordrecorded as Indonesiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English31%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Anua in English.

  • Spanish11%

    feminine singular of anuo

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Anua 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 Anua is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain241 in 2.1M24Añua9
PH Philippines———Anua11
IN India——1——

24 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)

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

  • Urdu surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, India

    Languages: Urdu, Hindi

    Also written Anuã

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States

    Also written Añua

30 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)

Anua 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 Irish, anoa (small Indonesian water buffalo; Bubalus quarlesi or Bubalus depressicornis)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, inflection of anuir:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In chb, narcotic blue lime

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In mva, village

    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

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

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Anua mean, and where does it come from?
household cleaning activities simultaneously in each house for 1-2 days before the fasting month Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Anua have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 24 people named Anua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled añua.
Where is Anua most common?
Anua is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.1 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Anua?
In Spain, the national register counted 24 people named Anua, about 1 in 2.1 million 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, “Anua”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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