Jwa

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Jwa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • KRSouth Korea1 in 15Kas 좌(measured from records)
  • CACanada≈1 in 11M
  • USUnited States≈1 in 14M

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 Jwa 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.

South Korea (measured from records)

3,383 named 좌, 2015

Sources
31 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 11M (inferred from the name graph)

Canada, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled 좌 in KR South Korea.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jwa 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.

Where Jwa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KR South Korea#1283,383as 좌1 in 15K3.4K좌31
US United States—≈23 est.≈1 in 14M—Jwa27
CA Canada—≈3 est.≈1 in 11M—Jwa4
EE Estonia———listed——

3,383 people counted by KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants, 2015. 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: KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jwa is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Syria

    Also written Jwã, Jwâ, Jwà, Jwā, Jwą

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Jwà, Jwâ, Jwã, Jwä

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

196019802000Yong-Ho Choa, b. 1965Jwa Jun-hyub, b. 1991Heebab, b. 1996
  • Yong-Ho Choab. 1965KRnot in their usual nameresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-1254-3593
  • Jwa Jun-hyubb. 1991KRSouth Korean association football player
  • Heebabb. 1996KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean YouTuber

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Jwa under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Jwa have the most bearers?
In South Korea, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named 좌, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Jwa?
In South Korea, the national register counted 3,383 people named 좌 in 2015, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
How common is Jwa compared with other names?
In South Korea, Jwa is the 128th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Jwa” — the 128th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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