Kawaf
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
/kavaf/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Kawaf is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 55Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 160Kfew records
- SESweden≈1 in 400Kfew records
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.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
≈450 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Kawaf
- Turkish:/kavaf/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Kawaf is found
(measured from records)Kawaf 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Kawaf | 11 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 160K | — | Kawaf | 15 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 668K | — | Kawaf | 6 |
| SE Sweden | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 398K | — | Kawaf | 6 |
| US United States | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 16M | listed | Kawaf | 27 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Kawaf | 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kawaf?
- In Turkish /kavaf/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kawaf?
- Mondonomo estimates about 447 people named Kawaf in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kawaf. After it come United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Sweden and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kawaf?
- Mondonomo estimates about 450 people in Syria have Kawaf as their first surname, about 1 in 55 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Kawaf?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kawafThe 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, “Kawaf”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.