Kaawa
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kaawa/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Kaawa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- KEKenya≈1 in 4.8Mfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 12Mfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3M (inferred from the name graph)
258 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)Kaawa 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 | 258 | 1 in 1.3M | 279 | Kaawa | 64 |
| KE Kenya | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 4.8M | — | Kaawa | 4 |
| CA Canada | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Kaawa | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 32M | — | Kaawa | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 17M | — | Kaawa | 2 |
258 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. 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 279 | #74,639 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 258 | #74,826 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 245 | #73,659 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Kaawa?
- It depends on the language: in Swahili /kaawa/; in Spanish /kaˈawa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Kaawa have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 258 people named Kaawa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaawa.
- Where is Kaawa most common?
- Kaawa is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kaawa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 258 people named Kaawa in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaawaThe 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, “Kaawa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.