Nawas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: One who
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries
/nəwɑs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nawas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- QAQatar≈1 in 43K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 60K
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.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)One who
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of Islamic Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nawas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Nawas | 10 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 233K | — | Nawas | 15 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 155K | listed | Nawas | 15 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Nawas | 25 |
| JO Jordan | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Nawas | 7 |
| QA Qatar | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Nawas | 11 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Nawas | 4 |
| NO Norway | 8 | 1 in 683K | 8 | — | 1 |
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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #60,094 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- What does the name Nawas mean, and where does it come from?
- One who Recorded by Dictionary of Islamic Names.
- How do you pronounce Nawas?
- A machine transcription gives /nəwɑs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Nawas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Nawas in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nawas.
- How common is the name Nawas?
- In Norway, the national register counted 8 people named Nawas, about 1 in 683 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nawasThe 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, “Nawas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.