Namo
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nəməw/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Namo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 170K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 464K
- DKDenmark1 in 587K
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 Namo 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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- 1 in 170K (inferred from the name graph)
60 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Namo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 60 | 1 in 170K | 60 | — | 3 |
| FI Finland | 12 | 1 in 464K | 30 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 10 | 1 in 1.7M | 10 | Namo | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 10 | 1 in 587K | 10 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 102M | — | Namo | 57 |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | 1 |
60 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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)
Namo is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dag, Bustard). 1. poverty 2. non-plentiful supply. (usually used with a negative, [Mana ka namo shieyu ni. Ocra is in plentiful supply in the rainy season.])
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In poz-oce-pro, lagoon
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In btx, deep place in a river, generally where it makes a bend and the water moves slowly (common in place names)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In ho, mosquito (small flying insect of the family Culicidae, known for biting and sucking blood)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In llu, the lagoon inside a reef, near the reef (the deep) pools towards the shore
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In enm, No more (of discrete items, such as would be described by mo and fewer)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 23 | #22,585 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #40,665 |
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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
- Is Namo a male or female name?
- Namo 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.
- How do you pronounce Namo?
- A machine transcription gives /nəməw/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Namo have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 60 people named Namo, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Namo most common?
- Namo is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 170 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Namo?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 60 people named Namo, about 1 in 170 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Namo?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/namoThe 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, “Namo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.