Salwâ
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Salwâ is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Brazil it is the 3rd most common surname. Salwâ is also written ซัลวา in Thai, Соуза in Cyrillic and Σοουζα in Greek.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 5.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 19K
- UYUruguay1 in 45as Sosa
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Salwâ itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- #36 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 427 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
256,043 named Sosa
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Salwâ in other scripts: Latin, Thai, Cyrillic and 1 more
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sousa in AR Argentina, PT Portugal, UY Uruguay and 1 more, Souza in BR Brazil, US United States, Silva in EC Ecuador and Salwa in MA Morocco.
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)Salwa är ett arabiskt kvinnonamn som betyder ’tröst’.
Cited for this meaning 7
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Salwâ is found
(measured from records)Salwâ 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | — | 256,043as Sosa | 1 in 178 | 256K | Sousa | 76 |
| US United States | — | 161,633as Silva | 1 in 2.1K | 163K | Souza | 427 |
| AO Angola | #14 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 239 | 4 | Sousa | 66 |
| PT Portugal | #6 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 68 | listed | Sousa | 212 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 75,135as Sosa | 1 in 45 | 75K | Sousa | 32 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 47,379as Silva | 1 in 357 | 47K | Silva | 22 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Salwa | 75 |
| BR Brazil | #3 | 3,877as Sosa | 1 in 55K | 224K | Souza | 310 |
256,043 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national), counting the spelling sosa. 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INEC — civil registry names; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Salwâ a male or female name?
- Salwâ 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Salwâ?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 256 thousand people named Sosa, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Angola, Portugal and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Salwâ?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 256,043 people named Sosa, about 1 in 178 residents.
- How common is Salwâ compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Salwâ is the 3rd most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Salwâ?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salw%C3%A2The 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, “Salwâ” — ranked 12th in Argentina (RENAPER). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.