Anyanwu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Dedicated to the God
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/aɲɑwu/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated · uncertain
Anyanwu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Malta it is the 94th most common surname.
- GDGrenada1 in 113K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 232K
- USUnited States1 in 315K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 241 (measured from records)
- 1 in 113K (inferred from the name graph)
1,056 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Grenada
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Dedicated to the God
Cited for this meaning 1
- The book of African names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Anyanwu 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.
1,056 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Chris Anyanwub. 1951NGNigerian politician
- Innocent Anyanwub. 1982NLDutch boxer
- Lennox Anyanwub. 2000GBEnglish rugby union player
- Ngozi AnyanwuNGnigeria-born playwright and actress
- Philip Emeka AnyanwuGBresearcher
- Ndubuisi AnyanwuUSbasketball player
- Chika AnyanwuNGNigerian actor
- Madubuike Umunna AnyanwuNGresearcher
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,064 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,899 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 606 | #35,187 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 60 | #39,413 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 60 | #39,093 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 44 | #14,096 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 12 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12 | #119,274 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #40,438 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #139,349 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 2 | #623 |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Anyanwu mean, and where does it come from?
- Dedicated to the God Recorded by The book of African names.
- How do you pronounce Anyanwu?
- In Swahili /aɲɑwu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Anyanwu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Anyanwu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anyanwu.
- Where is Anyanwu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Anyanwu is densest in Grenada — about 1 in 113 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Anyanwu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,056 people named Anyanwu in 2010, about 1 in 315 thousand residents.
- How common is Anyanwu compared with other names?
- In Malta, Anyanwu is the 94th most common surname of 5,132 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anyanwuThe 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, “Anyanwu” — the 94th most common surname in Malta. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.