Aswad
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Indonesian: black (absorbing all light)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əswɑd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aswad is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1M(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 121K
- NONorway1 in 137K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- 1 in 121K (inferred from the name graph)
321 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
black (absorbing all light)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Aswad is read(measured from records)
Aswad 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.
- Arabic41%
black
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
black, greater
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- English19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Aswad in English.
- Indonesian16%
black (absorbing all light)
as a wordrecorded as Malaykaikki.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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Aswad 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 321 | 1 in 1M | 367 | Aswad | 153 |
| SE Sweden | 84 | 1 in 121K | 84 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | 40 | 1 in 137K | 40 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 15 | 1 in 391K | 15 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 13 | 1 in 3.8M | 13 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | 2 |
321 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Aswad is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Negro
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Ibrahim al-Aswadb. 1885LBLebanese historian, jurist and poet
- Bill Aswadb. 1922USAmerican politician (1922-2015)
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)
Attested in 30 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 367 | #59,512 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 321 | #62,359 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 285 | #65,133 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 84 | #8,252 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 40 | #30,007 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 15 | #28,972 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 13 | #105,312 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Aswad mean, and where does it come from?
- black (absorbing all light) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Aswad?
- A machine transcription gives /əswɑd/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- In which country does Aswad have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 321 people named Aswad, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aswad.
- Where is Aswad most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aswad is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 121 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Aswad?
- In the United States, the national register counted 321 people named Aswad in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aswadThe 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, “Aswad”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.