Nawa
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nawa is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Côte d’Ivoire.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
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.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nawa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 300 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 189 | — | 17 |
| BR Brazil | — | 93 | — | 33 |
| PL Poland | — | 86 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 24 | — | — |
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: nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Nawa 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 Filipino, Said in hope that something will happen: may it be so!; so be it!; let it be so!; indeed
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, to wash (a part of the body, especially the hands)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fj, afloat, adrift (more specifically, sa nawa)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Initialism of North Africa and West Asia.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tbk, breath; spirit; character; feelings
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In asl, breath (archaic, in fixed phrases)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nawa Nagatoshib. 1250JPJapanese military figure
- Yasushi Nawab. 1857JPJapanese entomologist
- Nawa Naganorib. 1864JPJapanese politician
- Takeshi Nawab. 1892JP(1892-1972)
- Kimiyo Nawab. 1899JPJapanese violinist
- Hiroshi Nawab. 1932JPJapanese actor (1932-2018)
- Yukifumi Nawab. 1944JPJapanese parasitologist
- Keiko Nawab. 1953JPJapanese actress
- Aki Nawab. 1979JPprofessional bowler
- Samira Nawab. 1988DKDanish politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 300 | #1,536 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 189 | #101,718 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 189 | #96,368 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 158 | #104,819 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 93 | #66,867 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 86 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 86 | #33,871 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 75 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 75 | #37,100 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #78,630 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- In which country does Nawa have the most bearers?
- Nawa is most frequently recorded in Côte d’Ivoire.
What do you want to know about Nawa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nawaThe 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, “Nawa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.