Fuwa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Rōmaji transcription of ふわ
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/fəwə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fuwa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 19M(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19M (inferred from the name graph)
≈4 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Rōmaji transcription of ふわ
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fuwa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 19M | — | Fuwa | 9 |
| NG Nigeria | — | — | — | Fuwa | 11 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Fuwa | 51 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Fuwa | 28 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | — | Fuwa | 2 |
| AU Australia | — | — | — | Fuwa | 5 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sei Fuwab. 1915JPJapanese association football player
- Tetsuzō Fuwab. 1930JPJapanese politician
- Daisuke Fuwab. 1976JPJapanese illustrator and mangaka
- Fuwa-chanb. 1993JPJapanese owarai tarento, YouTuber
- Haruhiko Fuwab. 2000JPresearcher
- Seira Fuwab. 2003JPJapanese long-distance runner
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 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Fuwa mean, and where does it come from?
- Rōmaji transcription of ふわ Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Fuwa?
- A machine transcription gives /fəwə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Fuwa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4 people named Fuwa in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fuwa.
- How common is the name Fuwa?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4 people in Germany have Fuwa as their first surname, about 1 in 19 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Fuwa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fuwaThe 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, “Fuwa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.