Biswa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɪswə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Biswa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Bengali বিশ্ব (biśśo).
- SGSingapore≈1 in 583K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland≈1 in 1.4M
- SESweden1 in 2.6M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Biswa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 583K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 named Bishwa, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bishwa in BD Bangladesh, AU Australia, MY Malaysia and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Bengali বিশ্ব (biśśo).
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Biswa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Bishwa | 17 |
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | 2.5K | Biswa | 88 |
| AU Australia | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 883K | — | Bishwa | 20 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | listed | Bishwa | 23 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Bishwa | 8 |
| SG Singapore | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 583K | — | Bishwa | 3 |
| FI Finland | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 15 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 4 | 1 in 2.6M | 4 | — | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 3as Bishwa | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | 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 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Biswa 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.
In English, A surname from Bengali.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Himanta Biswa Sarmab. 1969INIndian politician
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.5K | #12,104 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 577 | #38,389 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Biswa mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Bengali বিশ্ব (biśśo). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Biswa?
- A machine transcription gives /bɪswə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Biswa a male or female name?
- Biswa is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Biswa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Bishwa in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Biswa?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 4 people named Biswa, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Biswa?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/biswaThe 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, “Biswa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.