Nahua
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A member of the Nahuatl-speaking indigenous peoples of Mexico and El Salvador
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Nahua is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 3.3M(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 105M
- USUnited States≈1 in 180M
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3M (inferred from the name graph)
≈10 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ñahua in PE Peru.
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 member of the Nahuatl-speaking indigenous peoples of Mexico and El Salvador.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nahua 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | Ñahua | 9 |
| BR Brazil | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 105M | Nahua | 7 |
| US United States | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 180M | Nahua | 8 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | Nahua | 6 |
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.
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)
Nahua is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, ancient Central American people
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Catalan, Nahua (pertaining to the Nahua peoples)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nahua mean, and where does it come from?
- A member of the Nahuatl-speaking indigenous peoples of Mexico and El Salvador. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Nahua a male or female name?
- Nahua is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Nahua have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 people named Nahua in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ñahua.
- How common is the name Nahua?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 people in Peru have Nahua as their first surname, about 1 in 3.3 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Nahua?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nahuaThe 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, “Nahua”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.