Ná
surname · Latin script
Meaning: synonym of nỏ (“crossbow”)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ná is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country, where it is the 69th most common surname.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 152K
- EGEgypt≈1 in 352K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, 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 Na in EG Egypt, MA Morocco, Nã in DZ Algeria, Nà in TN Tunisia and Nä in LY Libya.
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)
synonym of nỏ (“crossbow”)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ná 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.
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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Ná is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In jpx-pro, thou
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In tyz, not (negates meaning of verb)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, don’t (particle used to introduce a negative imperative; triggers h-prothesis of a following vowel)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sga, don’t, let…not (particle used to introduce a negative imperative)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, to get hold of, reach, overtake
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hong Weib. 1919not in their usual nameHong Kong actress
- Na Yingb. 1967CNChinese female singer
- Na XianzhangQing dynasty person CBDB = 100057
- Na SongMing dynasty person CBDB=128104
- Na Luperson, CBDB = 146401
- Na Luheperson, CBDB = 146402
- Na SihunQing dynasty person CBDB = 56603
- Na ShanQing dynasty person CBDB = 348428
- Na YuemeiQing dynasty person CBDB = 348433
- Na ShanQing dynasty person CBDB = 348436
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ná mean, and where does it come from?
- synonym of nỏ (“crossbow”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Ná?
- In the etymology graph, Bắn is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ná have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Ná in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nã.
- How common is the name Ná?
- In Poland, the national register counted 54 people named Ná in 2026, about 1 in 709 thousand residents.
- How common is Ná compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Ná is the 69th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ná?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%A1The 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, “Ná” — the 69th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.