Larwa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: grub, larva, maggot (early stage of growth for some insects, in which after hatching from their egg, they are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/larva/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated
Larwa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 116K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 3.1M
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 2.1Mfew 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 116K (inferred from the name graph)
331 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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
(measured from records)grub, larva, maggot (early stage of growth for some insects, in which after hatching from their egg, they are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Larwa is found
(measured from records)Larwa 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 | 331 | 1 in 116K | 170 | — | — |
| US United States | 109 | 1 in 3.1M | 109 | — | 1 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Larwa | 2 |
| MA Morocco | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 7.4M | — | Larwa | 2 |
331 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Larwa 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 csb, mask (cover for the face)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Larwa mean, and where does it come from?
- grub, larva, maggot (early stage of growth for some insects, in which after hatching from their egg, they are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Larwa?
- In the etymology graph, Larva is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Larwa?
- It depends on the language: in Polish /larva/; in Spanish /larwa/; in Swahili /laɾwa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Larwa?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 331 people named Larwa, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Algeria and Morocco; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Larwa most common?
- Larwa is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 116 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Larwa?
- In Poland, the national register counted 331 people named Larwa in 2026, about 1 in 116 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Larwa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/larwaThe 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, “Larwa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.