Mabua
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Swahili: plural of bua
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mabua is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 12M(measured from records)
- THThailand≈1 in 251Kas มาบัว
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 Mabua 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12M (inferred from the name graph)
≈270 named มาบัว, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled มาบัว in TH Thailand.
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)
A barangay of Surigao, Surigao del Norte, Philippines.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Mabua is read(measured from records)
Mabua is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Swahili35%
plural of bua
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English33%
A barangay of Surigao, Surigao del Norte, Philippines.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French7.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mabua in French.
- Thai5.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mabua in Thai.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mabua 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 251K | #492,931 | มาบัว | 33 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | — |
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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #180,065 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Mabua come from?
- A barangay of Surigao, Surigao del Norte, Philippines. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Mabua mean?
- In Swahili, plural of bua
- In which country does Mabua have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 274 people named มาบัว in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mabua most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mabua is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 12 million people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mabua?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1 people named Mabua in 2008, about 1 in 12 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/mabuaThe 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, “Mabua”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.