Awe
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Awe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A feeling of fear and reverence.
- USUnited States1 in 296K(measured from records)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 32M
- BRBrazil1 in 670K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 228 (measured from records)
- 1 in 296K (inferred from the name graph)
1,123 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A feeling of fear and reverence.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Awe 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 | — | 1,123 | 1 in 296K | 1.3K | Awe | 228 |
| BR Brazil | — | 316 | 1 in 670K | 316 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 15 | 1 in 2.6M | 8 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 14 | 1 in 729K | 14 | — | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 14 | 1 in 3.6M | 14 | — | 12 |
| NO Norway | — | 8 | 1 in 683K | 8 | Awe | 3 |
| NG Nigeria | #375 | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 32M | — | Awe | 74 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | 1 |
1,123 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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)
Awe is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ttj, your (second-person singular possessive pronoun)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ban, wave the hands, make signs with the hands
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
ISO 639-3 language code for Awetí.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bhp, call by beckoning with the hand
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In ski, beckon someone with the hand
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Bolanle Aweb. 1933NGFirst Nigerian Female Professor of History
- Micah Aweb. 1994USAmerican-football player (1994-)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,429 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #22,809 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 948 | #24,680 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 316 | #25,259 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 14 | #32,426 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14 | #101,339 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #60,933 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #148,743 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #160,780 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- What does the name Awe mean, and where does it come from?
- A feeling of fear and reverence. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Awe have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Awe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled awe.
- Where is Awe most common?
- Awe is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 296 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Awe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,123 people named Awe in 2010, about 1 in 296 thousand residents.
- How common is Awe compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Awe is the 375th most common surname of 346,007 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aweThe 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, “Awe” — the 375th most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.