Bâwa
surname · Latin script
Bâwa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 2,066 people, counted by Instate. Recorded meaning: From bāwā̀ (“slave”).
- SESweden1 in 170K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 342K
- USUnited States1 in 435K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 170K (inferred from the name graph)
2,066 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)From bāwā̀ (“slave”).
Cited for this meaning 2
- The African book of names
- Wiktionary
Where the surname Bâwa is found
(measured from records)Bâwa 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.
2,066 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bâwa mean, and where does it come from?
- From bāwā̀ (“slave”). Recorded by The African book of names and Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bâwa?
- In India, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Bâwa, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Sweden, Spain and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bâwa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bâwa is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 170 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bâwa?
- In India, the national register counted 2,066 people named Bâwa, about 1 in 642 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bâwa?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A2waThe 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, “Bâwa” — ranked 3075th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.