Kawer
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kɑwəɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kawer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: personne qui cave.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 425K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 2.9M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 425K (inferred from the name graph)
13 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)personne qui cave
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kawer 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 13 | 1 in 2.9M | 8 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 12 | 1 in 425K | 12 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Kawer | 9 |
| IN India | — | — | — | Kawer | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | 43 | — | — |
13 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Kawer is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Breton, personne qui cave
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 12 | #4,777 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #153,275 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #198,137 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Kawer mean, and where does it come from?
- personne qui cave Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- How do you pronounce Kawer?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑwəɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kawer have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 13 people named Kawer, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kawer most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kawer is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 425 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kawer?
- In Poland, the national register counted 13 people named Kawer in 2026, about 1 in 2.9 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/kawerThe 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, “Kawer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.