Adwa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Adwa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Saudi Arabia than in any other country.
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 72K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 75K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 228K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Saudi Arabia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)
≈480 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Saudi Arabia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Adwa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Adwa | 41 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Adwa | 10 |
| YE Yemen | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 348K | — | Adwa | 4 |
| US United States | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 8.1M | listed | Adwa | 34 |
| EG Egypt | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | — | Adwa | 7 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 665K | — | Adwa | 6 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 228K | — | Adwa | 6 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Adwa is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, nausea; feeling of sickness at the stomach with an impulse to vomit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Akan, Ak. = agua. o-dwfi, an edible fruit; cf. ogua
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
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)
Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Is Adwa a male or female name?
- Adwa 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 Adwa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 476 people named Adwa in Saudi Arabia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adwa.
- How common is the name Adwa?
- Mondonomo estimates about 480 people in Saudi Arabia have Adwa as their first given name, about 1 in 72 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Adwa?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adwaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Adwa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.