Awai
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɔaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Awai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- TTTrinidad & Tobago≈1 in 6.6K
- JPJapan≈1 in 99K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Trinidad & Tobago, 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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Awai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 484K | — | Awai | 3 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Awai | 19 |
| JP Japan | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 99K | listed | — | — |
| US United States | 309 | 1 in 1.1M | 309 | Awai | 107 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Awai | 12 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 278K | — | Awai | 14 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 1 | 1 in 101K | 1 | — | — |
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; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); the japanese-names-oneill-1972 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)
Awai is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In mh, Hawaii (an insular state of the United States, formerly a territory)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ace, first, beginning, origin, the start of something
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dag, nine
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 309 | #64,388 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 301 | #70,147 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 237 | #75,695 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #261 |
| JP Japan | Japanese Names (O'Neill, 1972) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Awai?
- A machine transcription gives /ɔaɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Awai have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Awai in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled awai.
- How common is the name Awai?
- In the United States, the national register counted 309 people named Awai in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Awai?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/awaiThe 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, “Awai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.